This test-fold is essentially a recreation of one from 2015, re-learning how I folded the shape. From the original post:
Creating the twist is actually fairly straightforward – I would be surprised if it’s not a re-invention of someone else’s idea. I used the same angle between each box here, but any angle from 0 to 90 degrees would work with very minor changes to the crease pattern. It could also work for shapes with more sides, not just squares. Collapsing the stack of twists is a bit tricky and uses a lot of paper, so I’m not sure I would want to try a stack too much taller than this.
With a few more years of practice, I re-created the same basic design with cubes stacked at 45 degree angles, giving it a nice symmetry. I’m starting to post a series of test folds exploring variations of twists on square tubes and other simple geometric forms instead of the more cylindrical forms I’ve usually folded, so this made a nice, simple entry point to thinking in those directions.
