Math Monday: Sonobe Sendings

by Glen Whitney

I just wanted to take the opportunity today to show a couple Sonobe constructions sent in by readers in response to the columns on that versatile modular origami unit.

A very colorful 270-unit icosahedron by John Haché:sonobeicosaTwo post-it dodecahedra, one with 210 units and a star-shaped hole in each face, and one with 330 units and a pentagonal hole in each face, by Raymond Strages:sonobedodecahedraHave something fresh made from Sonobe? Let mondays@momath.org know!

This article first appeared on Make: Online, July 15, 2013.

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