What is the Origami Cube?
The origami cube is a cube you can fold from a square sheet of paper.
Another name is water bomb.
Folding the Origami Cube
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Fold a square sheet of paper at the diagonals and unfold it.
Put the paper at both arrows together.
Lay the triangles at the top and at the bottom on top of each other.
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The result is a flier triangle, which is known from the swallow or
the pigeon.
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Fold upward on the red line on the right and on the left.
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Then it must look like this.
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Fold on the red lines.
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Then it must look like this.
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Fold the two little triangles on the red lines downward.
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Put the last made triangles in the two pockets on the right and on
the left. This is a little bit fiddly.
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Then it must look like this.
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Turn the whole triangle and repeat the steps 3,4,5,6,7,8,9.
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Then it must look like this.
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Fold and unfold on the red lines.
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Take the folded cube in hand and blow into the hole at the top. Unfold
the cube by this.
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The cube is ready.
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If you take the cube apart, you get a nice pattern, which is made by
the folds.
You find the formulas:
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On the left you can see the largest net of a cube, which fits a square.
You find the formulas:

This cube is much bigger than the folded cube. |
If you like to use the whole square for a cube, you have the formula:
This is the largest cube, theoretically.
See more in book (5), Seite 63f. und Seite Seite 71ff. "Der eingewickelte
Würfel".
Origami Cube on the Internet
Englisch:
Dr Stephen O'Hanlon (Ring of Origami Art)
Water
Bomb ( .pdf file)
H. B. Meyer (Polyeder aus Flechtstreifen)
Cube
Malcolm Goris
Instructions
to Build Water Bombs
Puzzle Playground (Puzzle_com)
Square
to Cube
Deutsch:
H. B. Meyer (Polyeder aus Flechtstreifen)
Würfel
Jennifer's
Puzzle
Flechten eines Würfels aus 3 Streifen
zzzebra
Wasserbombe
References top
(1) Joachim Schönherr, Wir falten und falzen, Leipzig 1990
(2) Therese Mielhaht: Origami Spaß mit Papierfalten, Köln
1990
(3) Kunihiko Kasahara: Origami - figürlich und geometrisch, München
2000
(4) Kunihiko Kasahara: Origami - ohne Grenzen, München 2001
(5) Martin Gardner: Mathematische Hexereien, Berlin/Frankfurt am Main/Wien
1988 [ISBN 3550065787]
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1999 Jürgen Köller
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