Own Designs Gallery - SonobeVariationsCopyright © 2000 - 2015 by M. Mukerji. All rights reserved. |
This gallery consists of own variations of Sonobe units. The name Sonobe Unit comes from its creator Mitsunobu Sonobe who created the original one in the early 1970s. Diagrams for the original Sonobe Unit can be found in Kasahara's book Origami for the Connoisseur and also on Helena Verrill's website. Tomoko Fuse has created many Sonobe variations and some of these can be found in her book Unit Origami. A lot of Sonobes type units also be found in book Mette Units by Mette Pederson. Some of my own variations displayed in this gallery could have been independently discovered by other folders who have played enough with Sonobe units. The the number of polyhedra that one can construct with Sonobe units is virtually endless. You can make a hexahedron (Toshie's Jewel) with 3 units, a cube with 6 or 12 units, a stellated octahedron with 12 units, a stellated icosahedron with 30 units, a stellated dodecahedron 90 units and so on. The maximum number of units that I have used in one Snobe polyhedron is 90. Here is a picture of a 900-unit model folded by Rosa Sanchez. One can also construct irregular polyhedra and other objects such as wreaths, birds etc. |
12-unit assemblies of my Sonobe variations folded by Carol Larson. |
These are all constructed out of 6 Sonobe Units! |
Hexahedron (Meenakshi Mukerji), Cube (Mitsunobu Sonobe), Octahedral Assembly (Ittai Hacohen). |
Sonobe Variation 10 - Curled Sonobe, 5/2012 | |
The Sonobe unit never ceases to amaze. Here is yet another variation with curls, showing two views. |
Sonobe Variation 9 (Flowered Sonobes), 3/2007Various Flowered Sonobes in unbloomed and bloomed forms. |
Sonobe Variation 8, 5/2004Sonobe Variation 8, only slightly different from Variation 3 below. |
Sonobe Variation 7(Striped Sonobe), 6/2001Sonobe variation 7 made with different widths of the white side showing |
Sonobe Variation 6, 6/2001A Bird Sonobe with 2:3 paper. This unit is not as thick as Fuse's Bird Sonobe unit |
Sonobe Variations 5 And 4 (Snow-Capped Sonobes), 1998 30 unit assemblies of my sonobe variations 5 and 4 done with duo kami paper |