Lifting and locking walls?

[Gerardo]

So you could start by creating the double layered right triangle on the inside of the model again. Flatten it on the side of either wall (no squashing, just pushing it to one side). Fold the triangle in half (hypotenuse to inside corner). Fold the resulting tip over the top. This tip will actually be the pocket. The outer wall has a right angled tip that you can tuck into that pocket.

It's genius ! I love it, I hadn't thought about that idea. Thanks LeafPiece!

I love my question, I'm learning new ideas thanks to answers like yours ... I wish I got more answers.

[Gerardo]

Are diagrams for the box shown in this picture available somewhere? I like the look of it and am too much of a beginner to figure it out...

I made a post about their photo-diagrams here: viewtopic.php?f=4&t=7590&p=81714#p81714

Have fun folding it .

[fncll]

thanks... very nice. And oh so simple now that I've seen it, and I created a few atrocities trying to figure it out!

[dinogami]

Finally, I've had an opportunity to take some quick pics of how to make a corner of Ed Sullivan's (?) Un-unfoldable Box model:

Step 1: This assumes you've already made the rabbit ear for the corner. Fold the triangle (the "ear") to one side; it doesn't matter which. In this picture, it's folded to the right. Valley fold the ear in half.



Step 2: Fold both walls adjacent to the corner in half, incorporating a squash containing the ear and the thick set of layers beneath it on one side.



Step 2 in progress...



Step 3: Here's the finished squash...



...and rotated 180°. Step 4: Here's the hard part: grab the edges of the two walls at the circled points and G E N T L Y pull them apart. The paper tucked inside the corner gets pulled out. It is VERY easy to rip the paper doing this, particularly if you're using kami. The walls will stand back up at 90° to the floor automatically as you do this.



Step 5: Finished corner from the inside, outside, and underside.

[Gerardo]

Finally, I've had an opportunity to take some quick pics of how to make a corner of Ed Sullivan's (?) Un-unfoldable Box model:

I love those photo-diagrams... they seem so cartoonish! Know what I mean? Thanks dinogami!

It really is unfoldable. You can make a lot of different boxes starting from that first step on my diagram . I guess that's why I'm loving this thread so much. I really hope I can get to see more ideas!

One thing, I'm getting confused when you, and LeafPiece, mentioned the rabbit ear. I thought the rabbit ear was something totally different. I mean this: http://www.scarygami.net/rabbit_ear_fol ... =1&style=1 Can you help me out with that?

[dinogami]

Well, let's see if I can make this make sense: a rabbit ear is a particular configuration of folds, but it isn't limited in shape or to any particular part of a piece of paper. Basically, a rabbit ear is what you get when you have three valley folds that converge on a single point (there is typically a single mountain fold that results when the ear is folded to one side or the other). It's basically the equivalent of pinching a part of the paper (a corner, an edge, a point, etc.) in half and standing it up. The link you provided is the most common kind of rabbit ear, but these are also rabbit ears (just to pull some random images off the intert00bz):

[Gerardo]

Well, let's see if I can make this make sense: a rabbit ear is a particular configuration of folds, but it isn't limited in shape or to any particular part of a piece of paper. Basically, a rabbit ear is what you get when you have three valley folds that converge on a single point (there is typically a single mountain fold that results when the ear is folded to one side or the other). It's basically the equivalent of pinching a part of the paper (a corner, an edge, a point, etc.) in half and standing it up. The link you provided is the most common kind of rabbit ear, but these are also rabbit ears (just to pull some random images off the intert00bz)

THANKS AGAIN! I got it! Know I got why LeafPiece also mentioned a rabbit ear.