Beginner's Book of Modular Origami Polyhedra

• Pictures of the Platonic Solids1. BackgroundWhat is Modular Origami?What is the connection between modular origami and polyhedra?What is a polyhedron?What are the Platonic Solids?Short history of the Platonic Solids and Connections with math, science and artReferences, Links and Origami Societies2. Making the ModelsDefinitions of SymbolsWaterbomb or Triangle BaseTrianglesHexagons3. CubesThe Jackson CubeThe Sonobe CubeThe Tile CubeLewis Simon-Bennett Arnstein Cube with Windows4. TetrahedraSimple chain of four equilateral triangles from a squareEquilateral triangle module from a hexagonEquilateral triangle edge module5. OctahedraBob Neale's octahedron 6-piece octahedron skeletonLewis Simon's original 2-piece Gyroscope module from a squareEquilateral triangle module from a hexagonEquilateral triangle edge module6. DodecahedraBob Neale-Lewis Simon 108 degree moduleLewis Simon's 2-piece Gyroscope module from a triangleSimon Gurkewitz' Dimpled Dodecahedron7. IcosahedraEquilateral triangle module from a hexagonEquilateral triangle edge module

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