The big project for the February meeting was a Rhombic
Dodecahedron shaped calendar. The calendar consists of 12 Rhombic units.
The Rhombic unit was designed by Nick Robinson. The idea of printing a calendar
month on each unit was the idea of Humiaki Huzita of Italy. Thoki Yenn,
of Denmark, worked out the problem of actually getting the calendar to print
at the right slant. Diagrams for the calendar units are available on Thoki Yenn's website at http://www.thok.dk/calendar.html. The printed calendar design we used was created by Lar de Souza, and can be found at http://www.sentex.net/%7Efresco/rhombic-calendar-2001.pdf. (You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to view and print this file.) |
The rhombic dodecahedron calendar. |
Eva has finished folding the 12 units, and has started assembling the calendar. |
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Brothers hard at work. |
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Everyone was able to complete their calendar! |
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A rhombic dodecahedron calendar made from units that had colored calendars printed on them. |