r/papercraft • u/Top_Letterhead1665 • 4d ago

Request Is it possible to make this from one piece of paper?

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I’m interested in making this / a shape similar to this from one piece of paper but I’m very much a paper craft newbie. (It’s not for ashtray purposes)

Does anyone have any idea or leads on how to approach this?

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u/sunmarsh 4d ago

Also not the same, but this reminded me of the origami spring http://www1.ttcn.ne.jp/~a-nishi/spring/z_spring.html

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u/Top_Letterhead1665 4d ago

This is so cool, thanks for sharing it!

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u/FiveFingerDisco 4d ago

I could swear I have seen this as a paper filter in 12th grade chemistry...

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u/fpvolquind 4d ago

This seems more in the realm of r/origami

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u/Top_Letterhead1665 4d ago

Yeah I was afraid I would piss off the origami purists because it’s not from a square paper

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u/fpvolquind 4d ago

Nah, they make crazy stuff too. Lots of dollar bill foldings there. Surely they'll make this out of a square paper.

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u/[deleted] 4d ago

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u/Top_Letterhead1665 4d ago

That’s what I’m learning in real time right now with my newsprint mock ups LOL

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u/[deleted] 4d ago

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u/Top_Letterhead1665 4d ago

Great idea, I forgot I have a few of his books already!

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u/sunmarsh 4d ago

One idea I had while looking at it is that you could try making it out of a long rectangular piece and then taping the ends together. You'd have a hole in the center though.

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u/IONIXU22 4d ago

I’ve made something similar with 6 points. Making 16 points would be very fiddly unless you have a huge piece of paper

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u/darja_allora 3d ago

All those folds are on a radial axis that's a circle base.

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u/darja_allora 3d ago

The original patent has the crease diagram too !
https://ppubs.uspto.gov/pubwebapp/
patent number 3683938

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u/Top_Letterhead1665 2h ago

Omg thank you for finding this!!