How do you find all these old images? I too was only aware of the pyramid method and never used to get very far with it. But I also had one of the collapsible ones sold by magic dealers, which folded flat and could be used as a production item.
I get them from people like you! Or stumble across them while playing on Google ... I haven't seen a collapsible Card Castle and I'm not sure exactly how it could work ... but I'd like to!
I’d never seen the folded method before either. I knew your “pyramid” as a “trestle”, possibly from the idea of trestle bridges, like the ones you used to see in old Western movies, where the bad guys would blow them up with dynamite so they could rob the train…
But the folded method reminds me of a simple 12-piece cube I saw in an old BOS magazine. That was from things like old business cards, though I think it would work from squares as well. It doesn’t seem to appear in your Origami Heaven page on Cubes. If I get chance I’ll trawl through my dusty collection, or I could send you a photo
Yes, the design you are thinking of is by Kenneth Kawamura and was first published in his 'Meditations on a Waterbomb' in 1977. He just calls it 12-piece Cube, but I have heard it called the Kawamura Cube. The reason it isn't on my Modular Cubes page is because, by my definition, it is a multi-piece arrangement rather than a modular design. To me the essence of a modular design is that it is self-integrating (i.e. it holds itself together - so you can pick it up without fear of it disintegrating in your hands) and this cube doesn't pass that test.
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How do you find all these old images? I too was only aware of the pyramid method and never used to get very far with it. But I also had one of the collapsible ones sold by magic dealers, which folded flat and could be used as a production item.
I get them from people like you! Or stumble across them while playing on Google ... I haven't seen a collapsible Card Castle and I'm not sure exactly how it could work ... but I'd like to!
I’d never seen the folded method before either. I knew your “pyramid” as a “trestle”, possibly from the idea of trestle bridges, like the ones you used to see in old Western movies, where the bad guys would blow them up with dynamite so they could rob the train…
But the folded method reminds me of a simple 12-piece cube I saw in an old BOS magazine. That was from things like old business cards, though I think it would work from squares as well. It doesn’t seem to appear in your Origami Heaven page on Cubes. If I get chance I’ll trawl through my dusty collection, or I could send you a photo
Yes, the design you are thinking of is by Kenneth Kawamura and was first published in his 'Meditations on a Waterbomb' in 1977. He just calls it 12-piece Cube, but I have heard it called the Kawamura Cube. The reason it isn't on my Modular Cubes page is because, by my definition, it is a multi-piece arrangement rather than a modular design. To me the essence of a modular design is that it is self-integrating (i.e. it holds itself together - so you can pick it up without fear of it disintegrating in your hands) and this cube doesn't pass that test.