FIT (Five Intersecting Tetrahedra)

Model December 3, 2006 April 18, 2021
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Folding instructions: Five Intersecting Tetrahedra, 60° unit
This is the primary page for this model.
Other folds and variants: FIT (Five Intersecting Tetrahedra) in other colors, FIT (Five Intersecting Tetrahedra), silver
Paper: copy paper
Type: modular woven polyhedron (implies: abstract modular, abstract, geometric, mathematical object, modular, multi-sheet, woven polyhedron)
Author: Tom Hull
Units used: 60° unit, by: Francis Ow
Unit count: 30
Colors: multi-colored
In albums: Modular ② — medium number of units

FIT, hole-on — Images are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License

FIT, vertex-on — Images are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License

At only 30 modules, this model is still much more challenging than most models with several times that many units, but also a lot of fun to fold. See the link above in Folding instructions for some hopefully useful tips about assembling this model.

The coloring used here (different colors for different tetrahedra) shows the structure of the model clearly. A single-colored fold looks more elegant and makes the model appear more complex. In order to see the model in 3D, you can have a look at yet another fold, from which I made anaglyph images.

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