Slide-together playing card polyhedron

This beautiful polyhedron was built by Flickr user fdecomite using George Hart's slide-together technique for making complex 3D paper shapes.

Slide-together : now with cards (via Make)

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The Charles & Ray Eames “House of Cards” from the 50s was a deck with slots cut perpendicular to the edges (I had a deck way back then). The Museum of Modern Art still sells them, in two sizes — regular playing card dimensions, and 4.5″x7″.

Even without the angled slots, I’ll bet you could build all kinds of similar polyhedra with the Eames version.

http://www.momastore.org/museum/moma/ProductDisplay_Eames%20House%20of%20Cards_10451_10001_49710
nycdesigner

This is great!

Here’s a version I made using printed using Dave Swart’s globe projection:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/enwhysee/2670290264/

And a version using triangles I teach in my Kirigami book:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/enwhysee/372778621/
Anonymous

Are all the cards cut identically? Is template for how to cut playing cards? I’d like to try this my self and the links I could find were for squares not rectangles.
hxa7241

I remember doing this with business cards — businesscardahedra –, in 2000 or 2001 I think.

Instructions for the platonic solids here:
http://www.hxa.name/cardahedra/
Takuan

interesting, could use the idea for temporary emergency shelters that ship flat-packed and require no tools. Make the panels out of hemp-based straw board and they’ll bio-degrade and also guarantee the local frickin government HAS to do something better instead of abandoning people after an initial sop.
JPW

What a card. . . .
Anonymous

@JPW

Ha ha ha!
http://www.instantrimshot.com/
aelfscine

Cool cards, what language are they in? Looks like the ‘R’ is for a Rey or Rex root, but what’s D and V?
Takuan

Roi, Dame, Valet…en frankcase
Anonymous

Glad to become famous !
here is the
template