Modular Origami Polyhedra: Revised and Enlarged Edition

By Rona Gurkewitz, Lewis Simon, Bennett Arnstein, et al.

Book Overview

This newly revised and enlarged book offers paperfolders, model builders, and math students alike a stimulating journey into the world of three-dimensional geometric origami. Step-by-step instructions... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0486404765
• ISBN13: 9780486404769
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.4" x 11.0"
• Age Range: 12 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 7 and higher

Customer Reviews

Good book - not for the beginner

While the diagrams are not always easy to follow, intermediate + folders should be able to figure it out. If you can get over the black and white pictures in the book and imagine the models in colour, it is obvious that there are some very good models in this book (mainly interesting cubes). Like most modular models, you will require some patience to fold these models, as you will have to fold many of the same things over and over again. So in summary - great book, will need patience, but well worth the effort.

Beautiful Models for Expert Folders

This book bursts with stunning models of various polyhedra. The directions, and models, are harder than in "Modelar Origami Polyhedra." The book opens with a nicely detailed section of polyhedra facts, including the numbers of edges, corders, face shapes and category of each shape, along with a definition of Platonic solids. For the non-mathematician, this information provides a nice grounding in polyhedra. The directions for each module are complicated yet clear. Occasionally the lack of color in the book proves a bit frustrating, but patience and double-checking can bypass that nitpicky problem. The one thing this book does not provide is guidance about connecting all of the modules. That is when authorial reassurance is most required! Nevertheless, this book will provide hours of pleasure for those with patience and nimble fingers.