Origami Dual Cube

I came up with this design back in June, and it was part of my exhibit for OUSA, but I just got around to photographing it this week. The shape is two intersecting cubes. I first saw it in an M. C. Escher print many years ago. The model is folded from a single sheet of paper, a rectangle with a 2:1 ratio. I must say it was a good deal easier than my Great Dodecahedron or Rhombic Dodecahedron. Still, this is only a preliminary study. My goal is to fold it from a square and with a color change so that the two cubes are in contrasting colors. This will require six color change regions. Fortunately I have a method for this, similar to the way I affect the color change in my Stellated Ocathedron (or Inchworm for that matter). Still, the devil is in the details, so I won’t actually know how well my approach works until I try it. Hopefully I’ll get around to it soon.

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