Anne's Origami Blog

The intersection of origami and welding (sort of)

Never quite got this uploaded last spring when I built it, and with the blog re-hashing the photo was languishing on my disk… But some of my friends asked me whether it was possible to combine my two hobbies, and here’s one of my answers to the question. :)

The shape is called the Great Dodecahedron. It’s brazed together (like soldering, but with brass rod for solder, and a high-temperature torch for heat), and each triangular piece (there are 60) was cut by hand with an oxy-acetylene cutting torch.

I love the contrast of the rough torch-cut pieces and the complex mathematical shape. Can’t wait to do some more of these!

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