Art For Fun: QRSTUVWXYZ - 10 intersecting planes

12 June 2013

QRSTUVWXYZ - 10 intersecting planes - Stars

Started on 21 May finished on 24th May 2013

After completing 9 intersecting planes I didn't start off with this one. It had become rather monotonous doing just the intersecting planes. I did a couple of curler models before starting this.

There is no color schematic diagram for this in the book. It is just mentioned that it should be assembled in truncated icosahedron pattern. I learnt that truncated icosahedron is just like a soccer ball, has hexagons and pentagons. Pentagons are surrounded by hexagons on all its sides. Hexagons are surrounded by pentagons and hexagons alternatively.

Paper used: Color printer paper. Personally I find printer papers very comfortable to do Origami (I have tried Origami papers available in stores but I felt this is better). To make an individual unit there are two folds in the flap. For the initial units I had trouble.

Number of units: 10 x 9 = 90 , 10 planes 9 units each.

90 units

For any intersecting plane after making units and before assembling I arranged them in a plane like this. For 10 intersecting plane each plane is a Nonagan, polygon with 9 faces.

10 Nonaganal planes

Size of Paper : 4 " x 4 "

Difficulty : Moderate

Time taken : 8 hours roughly

Base Angle: 360 / 9 = 40 degrees

Reference: Ornamental Origami: Exploring 3D Geometric Designs and link in David Petty (http://www.davidpetty.me.uk/ / Diagrams (on left side) / Clickable list of all models on this site / search for the diagram)

Also I referred to this photo to assemble initially (http://gurmeet.net/origami/qrstuvwxyz-by-meenakshi-mukerji/). Once I got all color units it was straight forward, I just followed the rule of truncated icosahedron and that same color papers should lie in same plane.