2004 Origami Ornament

Five Intersecting Tetrahedra

Design from: Tom Hull's Webpage
Built with: 30 1"x3" rectangles in 5 colors
Final size: about 3" in diameter
Assembly notes: No glue was used in this model, the locking tabs at the joints held together reasonably well. However, this model ended up being disappointingly weak. The foil paper is strong on creases, but very weak otherwise, so the individual pieces had a tendancy to buckle. The end result was that this model was easily crushed. On the plus side, it is possible to reconstruct a crushed model, if one knows what one is doing.