Dixie Cup Spherical Dodecahedron

Step 7 Dixie Cup Say What? ..Foo!

Use a very high-tack glue. This thing has a tendency to fall apart into a pile until the glue has dried. It's nice to be able to make adjustments as you complete the assembly.
The little hole you see between the three "turbining" triangular prisms is a flaw. The pieces should all be perfectly snug. Each prism is parallel to a face plane of a shape called the rhombic dodecahedron. A company called ULINE is one supplier of these mailing boxes. You could make this shape out of cheap acrylic optical prisms. Use capillary-action acrylic cement. This shape could serve as the base for a plastic-top coffee or end table. (You might decide to add interior reinforcement to the cardboard prisms.)

Comments

[micronxd]

u think "wood glue" would work? (i dunno... i just found it in my basement)

[SpiroExDeus]

He said 'High tack'. That means it's reasonably sticky during construction. Wood glue is kind of slippy. It'll hold one surface to the other pretty reasonably in some cases but it won't stop them sliding around until it's dried quite a bit more. I would say that if you used wood glue you'd have to get a lot of friends to hold stuff in place (or rig up some kind of 'scaffold' to hold it in place) while you wait for it to dry.

[SpiroExDeus]

That said. Wood glue IS very effective on cardboard once it is dry. I don't know whether the two would work well together but I'm thinking if they don't react against each other you could use 3M poster mount spray for the initial 'positioning' and to hold it in place and then squirt 3m around all the connecting edges for a longer term solution. Think that might work but you'd have to try it for yourself ;)