Irena Swanson
A folding of a dodeahedron
Construction of a dodecahedron, with help from Ezra Miller:
the point in this construction is to construct a dodecahedron by folding from
a planar shape.
The most common way to construct a dodecahedron in this way
is to draw "two flowers" of six pentagons each,
each flower consisting of five pentagons surrounding a sixth pentagon,
and then the two flowers sharing an edge.
However,
in this flower construction,
once you fold, you have to manually hold about four or more
corners to keep the shape.
With Ezra we did an alternate construction:
This is a planar shape that requires only one vertex being held together
(this is accomplished by the string in the picture).
What happens,
if you pull this one string:
Kind of disappointing?
But do a little manipulation and hand holding, and you
get a true dodecahedron:
