When you break (successfully) a rule not subject to discussion an interesting artistic result appears.
Any geometric model must follow the rules of an exact mathematical construction, especially the construction of angles. Looks like an absolute truth, isn’t it? And it often leads to complex folding process leaving unnecessary creases.
What if this paradigm of geometric folded is abandoned and exactness is be traded for simplicity. Series of more than 100 simple models called Mafra Rings resulted in such a way. Modules for all of the rings share similar simple crease pattern (5 lines, 4 folds). Rings may contain from 5 to 18 modules (including such strange numbers like 7, 11, 13). Actually none of the rings is mathematically perfect (a mathematician would say that they do not exist), but all of them close easily.
Hopefully Mafra Rings open a way for other geometric models that are simple to fold at the cost of the absolute mathematical exactness of the construction.
Any geometric model must follow the rules of an exact mathematical construction, especially the construction of angles. Looks like an absolute truth, isn’t it? And it often leads to complex folding process leaving unnecessary creases.
What if this paradigm of geometric folded is abandoned and exactness is be traded for simplicity. Series of more than 100 simple models called Mafra Rings resulted in such a way. Modules for all of the rings share similar simple crease pattern (5 lines, 4 folds). Rings may contain from 5 to 18 modules (including such strange numbers like 7, 11, 13). Actually none of the rings is mathematically perfect (a mathematician would say that they do not exist), but all of them close easily.
Hopefully Mafra Rings open a way for other geometric models that are simple to fold at the cost of the absolute mathematical exactness of the construction.
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