Two strange things have converged in recent months: the anniversary of the moon landings and a new fold (to me).
The photos I have here are the shapes I came across fidgeting one day. The indented equilateral triangle is a very strange fold as it makes an easy shift from a flat surface through two 45' bevels to 3 perpendicular sides each at 45' to each other. This quite simple set of folds is an appealing shape in itself.
When you combine 4 of these around a square you end up with an octagonal based dome. I loved the simple architectural properties of this shape and almost instantly likened it to the top of the Apollo 11 Moon-lander. It has unfortunately taken me 4 months to figure out how to make the rest of the craft....
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