"It is helpful to imagine the resulting icosahedron!"

[mothwing]

Even though I am not sure that imagining an icosahedron is ever helpful, I still had a lot of fun on a German site called Mathematische Basteleien which offers a neat tutorial for a Bascetta Star.

Inspired by our fröbeling yesterday and this is what is now gracing my desk:

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[ysilme]

I've tried my hand at several examples of "modular Origami" and manged some nice examples, but this Bascetta star so far eluded me. But with this tutorial I might try again next winter! Until then, I'm trying to find coloured Ramieband - it seems to be nearly unavailable, just to had rathrer expensively. *sigh*