See how to make the Sonobe Unit before you follow the directions below.

You are going to need 30 units to make this star.

Start with three units. You slide the flap of one unit into the pocket of the next unit.

As you push then together, they should make a nice corner for the start of your cube.

You should be able to create five of these corners (or pyramids) attached to each other.

As you put the rest of the star together, you will have 15 more corners that will appear.

See how to make the Sonobe Unit before you follow the directions below.

You are going to need 6 units to make the Cube.

Start with three units. You slide the flap of one unit into the pocket of the next unit.

As you push then together, they should make a nice corner for the start of your cube.

Add a fourth side, by placing a fourth unit’s flap into the pocket of one already attached to the corner. Slide the flap that is hovering over the new unit into the pocket of that unit.. You should now have two corners of the cube.

Do the same with the fifth side. This time 3 flaps will fit into 3 pockets. Now you have four corners of the cube.

Finally the last unit will slide its flaps into the pockets of the cube. The two flaps that are left will fit into the pockets of the sixth Unit. Now you will be able to count all eight corners of the cube.

Origami is something that I have done off and on for the past fifteen years. I would make a crane, a water bomb or a Chinese star whenever I am bored out of my mind. Just recently I have started looking around to find other things I could make out of paper. The following are some of the patterns that I have been trying. Click on them to see how to make them yourself:

• Crane

Unit (Modular) Origami

• Christmas Ornament
• Chinese Star
• The Sonobe Unit (Module)
• The Sonobe Cube
• The Sonobe 8-Point Star (octahedron)
• The Sonobe 20-Point Star (icosahedron)

I have done a little research and I have found that Origami found its roots in Japan as Ceremonial Paper folding. It was not until the 1600s that recreational paper folding became an art and something that people did to entertain themselves. From there various designs grew and became more and more complex.

Today you can find designs for just about anything you could imagine. It is amazing some of the things you can fold out of a piece of paper. I will be adding more and more of my own folding skills to this webpage as I have time. Take a look at some of the designs above.

Links

• Helena’s Origami Index Page – Great Unit Origami Stuff Here
• DofTNet – Roses, Caffeine, Books and other things made from paper.
• Menger’s sponge – I hope to make this one one day.
• Krystyna Burczyk’s Origami Page
• MM’s Modular Mania