Printable Modular Origami Ball

3D Printing & Imaging
Printable Modular Origami Ball

Thingiverse user Benoît Josse created this clever plastic & rubbler-band ball:

A few years ago I was interested in Penultimate Modular Origami by James S. Plank folding paper into geometrical spheres.

Now there’s a RapMan in my stable and paper turned into polylactic acid. This is my first printed object, I hope you”ll enjoy it! Can be pressed, stretched, thrown, twisted, and the bow-connectors could be basic elements for connecting rubbers into anything!

[Via MakerBot]

4 thoughts on “Printable Modular Origami Ball

  1. Anonymous says:

    This kind of structure is called a tensegrity structure

  2. Anonymous says:

    This kind of structure is called a tensegrity structure

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