TRIANGULAR BOX

This triangular box is actually

very easy to fold, but Thok has
had great difficulties in explaining
how to do it.

Vincente Palacios of Spain made a

very clear diagram, and on the
basis of that Thok has made a
new attempt to make a diagram.

First it has to be made clear that

the proportion between the paper
format for the Lid and that for
the Box can both be found on the
same silver rectangle, as shown on
the drawings to the left.

In the last drawing I have left the

helping lines for drawing the
crease lines dividing the paper in
thirds, and that gives me a great
opportunity to tell you about The
Thok Trisection Theorem: the
TTTT:

"A Diagonal in a rectangle is

trisected by a diagonal in the half
Rectangle. "

The story about how this came

about will be told on the
Geometry Cloud, in the near
future..

Here on the left is shown the

actual proportion between the
formats of the Lid and the Box.

It is clearly visible that the

triangles on the Lid part are just
a fraction larger than those in the
Box part.

This gives the Lid a perfect fit on

the box, without you having to
calculate the sizes of the papers.

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 This was not calculated I was just
trying to use only one sheet of A4.

If you have made the creases

sharp and precise valley and
mountain folds as indicated, the
box will practically fold itself.
Have fun.

1) Fold in half and then half the

top half. put a crease halving the
lower half only at one end of the
paper. No scars on the bottom.

2) Form 60 ° by putting the

corner to the crease.

3) Copy the 60° making

equilateral triangles. Put in
creases from the top of the
triangles. Mountain fold a
diagonal in no. 2 top section from
the right.

4) Fold down 2 sections, at the

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 same time mountain fold the
diagonal as shown in 5. This will
force the paper to become slightly
3D.

5) Swing in left side. Folding left

triangle with the arrow on to its
neighbor as in 6.

6) Fold the swung part in two and

fold it up against the left wall as
in 7.

7) Swing in the right section and

keep the half triangle at the end
up against the wall as in 8.

8) Push the inner lining down

starting at the diagonal.

9) No explanation needed
here.Lid is complete.

The Box is folded in the same

way, but here you don't fold the
swinging part in two, just put it
up against the side wall, and
complete the Box as you did the
Lid. It has a perfect fit.

This Box was made in 1993 and

dedicated to Elsje van der Ploeg
of Holland, the diagram was first
made in Jan. 1994.

Fold six small triangular Boxes from a silver rectangle

quartered, which means if Hexbox is folded from an A4
the smaller triboxes are folded from A6. These six boxes

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 will fit exactly inside the Fujimoto hexagonal Box.

updated 28. Mar. 1999 Back to Origami

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