How-to fold a Five Intersecting Tetrahedra Dodecahedron

video How-to fold a Five Intersecting Tetrahedra Dodecahedron

A really cool type of modular origami. When you see one it just makes you stare at it for hours. So purty...anyways, this is my second tutorial so if you like it then...you know, let me know or something.

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Feb 13, 2009. 10:21 PMmonkeywithawrench says:

does cardstock work well for this?

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Oct 4, 2011. 3:50 PMedwardholmes91 says:

It depends how big the modules are. Normal copy paper is fine to be honest. If you want to make a really big one using paper that is 42cm by 14cm from A3 paper then cardstock may be better. I have made this out of 80gsm copy paper using 21cm by 7cm and it seems fairly sturdy.

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Aug 4, 2009. 11:13 AMshort dude says:

da third one is so hard

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Aug 23, 2009. 4:52 PMGregorN says:

Yes, third one is hard, but when you finish third one, then is easy.

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Oct 4, 2011. 3:47 PMedwardholmes91 says:

I find the first two are easy then like you say the third is quite difficult. Just sit and look at it for ages and you will see the pattern. Once you have the third one in the fourth is quite easy and the last one is quite easy. Over all it makes a very nice model I think. I have made 3 of these so far. One in colours, one in dollar bills and also one in dollar bills printed in 5 different colours.

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Dec 21, 2010. 10:03 PMinergy says:

Can't get 3rd tetrahedra in :<

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Oct 31, 2010. 9:59 AMcowscankill says:

"...or something, I usually just call them spikey balls"
I laughed so hard. Thanks for the instructions, very cool!

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Jun 18, 2010. 3:52 PMgaaarg says:

FFFUUUU---- I can't understand how you're doing the part when you "invert the triangle fold" around 4:50 in your first video. My middle part always gets too large and it never seems to fold right. Does anyone know of another video or site with illustrations that give a better angle and/or closer view?

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May 25, 2010. 7:31 PMknuckelX2 says:

im using tape

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May 25, 2010. 7:02 PMstupidstickanimations says:

i cant get the strips of paper even D:

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Apr 28, 2010. 10:53 AMdiyluke says:

very Nice. And for those of you who dont know. Making these are a Christmas tradition in Germany.

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Mar 11, 2010. 1:59 PMnsbd says:

Thanks - the videos are good : )

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Aug 29, 2009. 12:01 AMorigami-crazy says:

great videos! I'v made about 7 of them so far

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Feb 26, 2010. 3:17 PMrustymia says:

Dude im SO confused can u plz psot ..structable im trying to put in the 3 tetrahedra but i dont wnat to make it rong please help,
Steve Bob

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Feb 25, 2010. 5:30 AMrustymia says:

Where r u from u have a funny accent i like it

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Aug 24, 2009. 10:02 PMamg1293 says:

i have a question when you cut the complete piece of paper you cut it into a perfect square or a rectangle and if it is a rectangle wich measures . i would really appreciate your answer thanks.

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Aug 29, 2009. 12:00 AMorigami-crazy says:

cut a square into 3rds, or have a sheet of paper that has the ratio of sides equal to 3:1

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Feb 8, 2009. 11:30 AMppiksderf says:

i am building one right now and they are very hard im on my third and for a moment i sucked just like you said. thanx for the vids i couldnt find this anywhere except one that was very unclear

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Feb 8, 2009. 11:32 AMppiksderf says:

i repied to my own comment lol

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Feb 8, 2009. 11:32 AMppiksderf says:

i replied to my reply to m y comment lol

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Feb 8, 2009. 11:32 AMppiksderf says:

im gunna stop now

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May 15, 2009. 5:38 PMhope1300 says:

i replied to your comment about stopping to comment on your commenting on your comments to you own comment

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Aug 24, 2009. 9:07 PMamg1293 says:

i replied to the comment about replying to the comment about stopping to commenting on your comments to your own comment

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Aug 23, 2009. 4:51 PMGregorN says:

Uh yea right now finish, regards from Slovenia 1:44 in morning, finish Five Intersecting Tetrahedra =) Good Night

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Apr 4, 2009. 5:14 PMadriv says:

uuuhh finally got it...took me a while, the third one is the hardest to get in

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Apr 4, 2009. 4:19 PMadriv says:

the pieces are hard to put together...they get separated really easy, i can't manage to do the piramid

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Feb 28, 2009. 6:34 AMvianka99 says:

what is moviemagic?

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Dec 30, 2008. 7:15 PMEvan606 says:

"...Then you suck and its not actually my fault" LOL i laughed so hard at this part. nice video very detailed.

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Dec 20, 2008. 8:30 PMelyena says:

Where are you from? You have an interesting accent! (almost sounds Norwegian, from what I remember from a year and a half ago...) Very cool project, I think I will make one on my break :)

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Dec 21, 2008. 1:41 PMAdkit (author) says:

I'm swedish. swedish, norwegian and danish all sound pretty much similar except a few things here and there. we borrow a lot of words from each other languages and so on. though I've never heard anyone from scandinavia talk english. x.x only Stellan Skarsgård but he's a famous actor so his accent isn't that bad. he was in Minority Report for crying out loud! *jealous*

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Dec 22, 2008. 5:38 PMelyena says:

Ah okay! Yeah, I dated a Norwegian once, and have a Swedish friend. I'd love to learn a Scandinavian language, maybe even all of them. Shouldn't be too hard once I've got one, I think. I've never heard of Stellan Skarsgård, or Minority Report, but that's cool. :)

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Nov 16, 2008. 3:34 PMFatetoHoax says:

wao!! how awesome. i will get right on to making one.

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