Dear Dave and all Ori-l'ers Some more information about the similar Norishige Terada and Hisashi Abe 60 degree units from bronze rectangles.
Norishige Terada was a member of Yoshihide Momotani's NOA Osaka group: I was introduced to him at the group when I first visited Japan in 1980, and he gave me a large supply of ready-prepared bronze rectangles so I could experiment with his ideas. I still have a few of these somewhere. Diagrams of the Terada unit were published on pages 56-63 of SUTEKI NA ORIGAMI (small objects and furniture) ISBN4-8385-0195-1 published by Musashi Shobo, Osaka 1982 (authors Momotani and Terada). This is now out of print. Cover picture: http://www.oriwiki.com/showPub.php?BookID=2749 Hisashi Abe's 60 degree unit is published on pages 48-51 of SUGOIZO ORIGAMI ISBN 4-535-78409-4 (2003) available from Amazon here: goo.gl/awfrey This is a lovely book, showing unit constructions each one fitting inside another, in the style of Russian Matrioshka dolls. Terada's unit has folded pocket edges, whereas Abe's has raw pocket edges. Abe's unit is therefore larger than Terada's when they are folded from identically sized bronze rectangles. Both units connect in exactly the same way, and in the two books mentioned above a large number of possible constructions are shown. In 2007, my wife Assia also independently discovered a unit similar to Abe's (diagrams as yet unpublished). She uses the unit to make coasters, a letterfold and a tetrahedron. She is very proud of a related double colour Diamond Coaster which uses a double bronze rectangle, as well as a related snap hexahedron and multi purpose unit. I see Norishige Terada has other tempting books available too: worth investigating I think! goo.gl/BDAv84 goo.gl/KeKcun Yours Dave Brill www.brilliantorigami.com http://digitalorigami.com/oac/# http://www.flickr.com/photos/brill/ On 26 January 2017 at 15:27, David Mitchell <[email protected] > wrote: > I have just added some quick diagrams for the basic forms of both the Abe > and Terada modules to my website (filed under A) at > http://www.origamiheaven.com/modulardesignsindex.htm, something I have > been > meaning to do for a long time now. > > Dave > >
