Spiked Icosahedron (WASS with color change)
A spiked icosahedron made from my Weird Asymmetric Sonobe (WASS) unit variant with color change. Since the color change’s symmetry is not aligned with the sy...
Modular spiky balls
Modular spiky balls (sometimes also called 3D stars) are among the most popular shapes folded from multiple units.
This page lists models of a single type. You might be interested in folding instructions instead.
Spiked Icosahedra from Three Sonobe Variants
Comparison of three related Sonobe variants of mine, from left to right: Paper Airplane Sonobe, Checkered Sonobe, and Bow-Tie Sonobe. Each icosahedron is fol...
Spiked Icosahedron (Checkered Sonobe)
Spiked icosahedron, folded from my Checkered Sonobe units.
Spiked Icosahedron (WASS)
A spiked icosahedron made from Weird Asymmetric Sonobe (WASS) units.
Spiked Icosahedron (Bow-Tie Sonobe)
Spiked icosahedron, folded from my Bow-Tie Sonobe units (also independently designed by tomoko07011209 around the same time).
Spiked Icosahedron (Paper Airplane Sonobe)
Spiked Icosahedron made from my new Sonobe variant, Paper Airplane Sonobe. When you look at an individual unit before assembling the model, you can spot a re...
Aton Kusudama
Aton Kusudama, variant A (many more are possible). Spiked icosahedron made from 30 units. Designed and folded by me. More variants are possible, some with in...
Spiked Icosahedron (StEM face variant) from Kami
This kusudama is a refold of an old spiked icosahedron model of mine with nicer paper. It’s a modular design which uses 30 units.
Spiked Octahedron (WSM)
Spiked octahedron made from my Woven Slit Module (WSM), 48 units from 3:1 paper.
Hydrangea Icosahedron
After I made a Hydrangea Cube, Hydrangea Icosahedron was the next logical step. Just as in the cube, the Hydrangea Tessellation by Shuzo Fujimoto is used as ...
Chopin’s Grand Piano (Spiked Icosahedron)
Named after a poem, this model is — strictly speaking — just a spiked icosahedron.
Spiked Icosahedron (BBU D2)
The structure of this model is similar to spiked icosahedra made with variants of the Sonobe unit and other similar modules. However, in the case of BBU, a t...
Spiked Pentakisdodecahedron (SEU Sonobe)
Compare with the same solid folded from standard Sonobe units.
Spiked Icosahedron (StEM)
In this model, each face of an icosahedron was replaced with a triangular pyramid made from three units.
Spiked Icosahedron (StEM face variant)
The unit is a variant of an edge unit; I call usage like this the “face variant” since the unit covers a face rather than an edge of the solid. When I invent...
Spiked Octahedron (rotated link method)
This model demonstrates the rotated link connection method that can be applied to SEU units folded from square paper, which can be considered a Sonobe varian...
Spiked Icosahedron (Sonobe link method)
This model demonstrates the Sonobe link connection method that can be applied to SEU units folded from square paper, which can be considered a Sonobe variant...
Spiked Icosahedron (reversed SEU link method)
This model demonstrates the reversed SEU link connection method that can be applied to SEU units folded from square paper, which can be considered a Sonobe v...
Spiked Icosahedron (SEU link method)
This model demonstrates the SEU link connection method that can be applied to SEU units folded from square paper, which can be considered a Sonobe variant. T...
Spiked Dodecahedron (SSIT)
See also the same design with different coloring.
Spiked Icosahedron
Model folded from a unit I made specially for this purpose.
Spiked Icosahedron
I designed the simple unit used for this model and later learned that it had been already published before by Jose Arley Moreno.
Spiked Icosahedron (Sonobe variant)
I think this is my first Sonobe variant. Since it’s one of the simplest modifications possible, it has probably been independently discovered by many others.
Icosahedron (120° units pointing outside)
See also: icosahedron from same units but pointed inwards.
Spiked Pentakisdodecahedron (Sonobe)
There is one spike placed over two adjacent faces of the pentakisdodecahedron in this model. I haven’t checked if the angles actually add up, so it might be ...
Spiked Icosahedron (Trimodule)
Apart from this basic version, I also made a variant of this model which has additional “fins” on the icosahedron’s edges.
Spiked Icosahedron (Penultimate Unit)
One way of looking at this model is to see it as an icosahedron with a pyramid placed on each triangular face. Another is seeing it as a dodecahedron where e...
Spiked and Finned Icosahedron (Trimodule)
This model is similar to the spiked icosahedron, but apart from the spikes on all faces, the icosahedron also has “fins” placed on its edges.
Spiked Dodecahedron (orange)
See also the same design with different coloring.