2010年7月1日木曜日

Math Monday: Kirigami polyhedra

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By George Hart for the Museum of Mathematics

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Kirigami is a traditional art of cutting paper. Ulrich Mikloweit takes it a step further by assembling many pieces of kirigami into intricate mathematical models. This is a snub dodecadodecahedron made from 924 cut and colored facets.

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Ulrich has dedicated years to making hundreds of such hand-cut models, which can be seen on his website.

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