Updated carved stella octa

[shiying]

Hi everyone, it’s been a while… I haven’t got a lot of chances to make new stuff lately. But I did improve my old stella octa patterns.

paper version:

assemble video:

Paper Stella Octangula Sculpture

acrylic version:

assemble video:

New Stella Octa Sculpture

[deirdrebeth]

Oh wow! I love the circular edges to the paper - I’m betting it no longer requires glue!

The acrylic looks a lot simpler too - far fewer connection points, and the final product has more air

In case anyone hasn’t seen the originals I’m referring to:

Carved stella octangula for paper and acrylic

Hi, this is a very cute geometry puzzle and sculpture you can make with your kids together. I don’t have a picture of the acrylic version now, but it is basically the same shape as the paper version. Depending on your paper thickness, you might want to adjust the slit width. I have included two thicknesses. The acrylic version is drawn for 3mm. You need 8 pieces to make one. For the paper version, I was too lazy to draw 4 or 8 on 12" by 12", and did 6 instead. It was actually drawn for Cricut De…

[shiying]

@deirdrebeth

final product has more air

Exactly!!

Yesterday I looked my old version and wondered why it felt something was wrong. I decided it was just too bulky. Now it only has enough connecting points to not fall apart. I think it’ll look even better with some fancy acrylic

[evermorian]

These are neat! Nice work!

[pubultrastar]

Very cool!

[MakerMatthew]

Great work!

[geek2nurse]

I like it!!!

[ptodd]

I love paper, and really like your update.

I also love teal, and the acrylic one is awesome!

[jeanneleigh]

They look so great!

[Thumper369]

Quite lovely. I might try and make one of these with my Niece tomorrow while she is here. Thank you!

[evansd2]

Yeah this is a fun model.

You’ll probably like this guy, my take on a stellated octahedron:

Implied structure

Hey there, I’m Rollie! [IMG_6492] A variant on my nested polyhedra, I wanted to see if I could build a polyhedron and its stellation at the same time. This is the first stellation of an octahedron, which contains its core octahedron. Of course the fun part is that the stellated faces don’t really exist, they’re extensions of the core shape’s face in the form of very long fingers. It was designed to let a fair amount of light come through, it would probably make a decent lamp design. [I…

[rvogt]

That’s amazing!!

[dwardio]

That’s amazing!

[cynd11]

That is really cool! Thanks for the design.

[hansepe]

Thank you for sharing your designs.

As was started before: Wow.