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Hand-woven Paper Icosahedron

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I was thinking about 3d printing and how neat it is, but was lamenting how the price needs to come down some before I could screw around with it. Like Bathsheba Grossman said: "Think of 3D printing as the last resort when you've dreamed up something that is flat-out impossible to make by conventional methods".

Which kind of took the wind out of my sails. I like technology, I like playing around with new stuff. I want to print out a thing that's never existed before into cornstarch, plaster, ABS plastic, or - hey, why not? - bronze. But Quicken has me on a short chain, so I can't really justify ordering a print run on a professional fabrication device just for my own amusement.

So, I was noodling with the idea of weaving and symmetry and the next thing you know, I ended up with a hand-woven icosahedron (20 sided die, for all you half-elf fighter/clerics out there). Made from a single sheet of 8 1/2" x 11" card stock (with some left over), this little thing holds itself together with no glue, tape, or telekinetic beams.

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