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Origami - Photo Cube (Waterbomb)

I was curious what it would take to create an origami photo cube. Thought of a water bomb first, so that's what I figured out first. It worked, more of less.

I worked out the pattern to cut a photo into properly shaped pieces for what ends up being the two folded sides. Even with properly cut pieces the two folded sides are finicky and don't work well for all pictures.

If you want to try it, I've attached the templates and some notes below.

Water bomb photo cube template (view full size) and photo cutting template (view full size):

The first folds are shown to give you an idea of the orientation for the segmented photos.

Photo 1 is split in two with the centre cut being the outside edge of the template.

Details of the folded sides are labeled in for only one side of photo 5. Photo 6 works the same way as photo 5.

5e needs to be upside down, relative to 5a. as does it's opposite small triangle.

The cutting template is scaled for the above water bomb template, though the size displayed in this blog doesn't look like it.



My final pattern, photo cube, and folded side looks like this:












If you look closely, the middle two triangles of the folded side are wrong-side up, because I didn't turn them upside down in the template.

Ultimately, the template should make the two middle triangles bigger and they should be offset to minimize the exposed white space. The two narrow triangles over them should also be wider and be offset.

Not liking the messy folded sides, I'm going to make a photo cube out of Kunihiko Kasahara's Solid Figure II, on page 87 of the Origami Omnibus. It has 5 smooth sides and 1 side of 4 triangles. It's easier to set this one on any of it's sides. Next time.

Labels: more-time-than-sense, origami

posted by JJ @ 10:39 AM