Re: [Origami] How can I distribute the units for Kawamura's Butterfly Ball?

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You need 4 colours, three of each, for the 12 modules in total. Each side will have 4 colours, each corner will have 3 colours. Look here:https://papirfoldning.dk/da/ugensfold/2008-42.html If you stay on the page, small waterbomb bases drop from the top. Click them (once) to see them expand into the exploding butterfly ball. For instructions in English: https://papirfoldning.dk/en/diagrammer/sommerfuglebombe01.html One trick: Make a masu box with sides that are the width of the waterbomb square. Then, when you have weaved the first four modules into the bottom side, you lift that into the box which functions as that third hand you don't have, making it much easier to assemble. You weave the bottom layer, the sides, and the top. If you use the colours in the same order for each layer, shifted one corner clockwise (or counterclockwise, pending how your bottom layer weaves), then the resulting cube will have the colours spread out in each their band around the cube. Anyway, always weave four different colours on each side, three different colours in each corner. You can also find instructions in Tom Hull's Origami Math book. I'm very grateful to Kenneth Kawamura for this great action model. Have fun, Hans On 8 Mar 2023, at 16.49, Kate Honeyman via Origami <origami@lists.digitalorigami.com> wrote:  If you have groups of 3 at a point try using only 3 colors. Try 4 pink 4 green 4 blue and it should work Im not familiar with the model. Are 4 pieces used at a corner or 3? On Wed, Mar 8, 2023, 9:21 AM gera...@neorigami.com <gera...@neorigami.com> wrote: HI So I have the twelve units for Butterfly Ball, created by Kenneth Kawamura: three pink, three yellow, three blue, and three green. I'm trying to distribute them so that the same color doesn't repeat in any segment, but I haven't been able. Can you please help me? You can reply through the list, or if you prefer, you can do it privately to my email address: gerardo(a)neorigami.com Thank you very much in advance! -- Gerardo G. gerardo(a)neorigami.com instagram.com/neorigamicom Knowledge and Curiosity in Origami: six private classes online "(...) It doesn’t happen often, but when it does, it takes your breath away and fills you with the true joy of origami. I experienced this in my lessons with Gerardo G. I wouldn’t trade it for anything. Gerardo is (...)" C. R. Read the full review