Jitterbug ★★★✩✩ Use 12 Squares Finished Model Ratio 1.0
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Jitterbug ★★★✩✩ Use 12 squares Finished model ratio 1.0 uckminister Fuller gave the name Jitterbug to this transformation. I first came across B the Jitterbug in Amy C. Edmondson’s A Fuller Explanation (1987).As I didn’t have dowels and four-way rubber connectors, I made several cuboctahedra that worked as Jitterbugs but were not very reversible. Some were from paper and others from drinking straws and elastic thread. My first unit,Triangle Unit, was partly successful as a Jitterbug.A better result came from using three units per triangular face (or one unit per vertex) which was published in 2000. This improved version is slightly harder to assemble but has a stronger lock.The sequence is pleasingly rhythmical and all steps have location points.The pleats in step 18 form the spring that make the model return to its cuboctahedral shape. Module ★★★ Make two folds in half. Do Fold the sides to the centre. Fold the bottom half behind. 1 not crease the middle for 2 Unfold the right flap. 3 the vertical fold. Fold the top right corner to This creates a 60 degree Fold the right edge to the 4 lie on the left edge whilst the 5 angle. Unfold. 6 centre. fold starts from the original centre of the square. Reproduced with permission from Tarquin Group publication Action Modular Origami (ISBN 978-1-911093-94-7) 978-1-911093-95-4 (ebook). © 2018 Tung Ken Lam. All rights reserved. 90 ° Fold the bottom half Repeat step 4 and unfold, Fold the left edge to the 7 behind. 8 leaving the right flap folded. 9 centre and then rotate the model 90 °. Bisect the 60 ° angles. Unfold. Reverse fold. You will 10 Note that the filled circles 11 12 need to extend the are the ends of the existing creases slightly. crease, not the corners. 105° Reinforce three creases. Precrease the ends. Fold in half using the given 13 14These creases make 15 location points. Unfold. the third sides of partial equilateral triangles. 30° Fold in half using the given Unfold. Reinforce the creases and 16 location points. 17 18 make a total of 12 units: three colours works well. Reproduced with permission from Tarquin Group publication Action Modular Origami (ISBN 978-1-911093-94-7) 978-1-911093-95-4 (ebook). © 2018 Tung Ken Lam. All rights reserved. Assembl y ★★★★ Join three units to make a Continue adding units to Remember to make 1 triangle. Use the creases 2 make more triangles. If you 3 square “holes ” with four from step 14 to lock the are using three colours, note triangles. As you make the units. that the order of colours on cuboctahedron, the each face is not always the vertices have colours that same. form three rings Push near and far faces …the circumference will …continue pushing to 1 together, faces will twist as 2 buckle, making an 3 form an octahedron. they approach … icosahedral configuration … Action Pressing the opposite faces of Jitterbug transforms it from a truncated cuboctahedron to an octahedron — let go and it springs back to its original shape. Reproduced with permission from Tarquin Group publication Action Modular Origami (ISBN 978-1-911093-94-7) 978-1-911093-95-4 (ebook). © 2018 Tung Ken Lam. All rights reserved..