Event
Convention 2016
Event time
Saturday, June 18, 2016, 3:00 pm – 4:45 pm EDT
Room
MAR106
Level
Simple
Creator(s)
Takaya Iwamoto
Teacher(s)
Takaya Iwamoto
Special requirements
Glue or cuts
Non-square paper
Special preparation or special materials--details in Class Descriptions/Advisories

It is well known that if a strip of paper is knotted once and carefully pressed flat, folds will form a regular pentagon. This idea was expanded to make a ring of multiple regular polygons and generalized to regular polygons with any number of sides. The attendees will have hands-on experience to understand this idea using the precut papers provided to make a ring of five regular pentagons. The process requires gluing together 5 pieces of precut tape into one long tape, which will be woven to construct a closed pentagon ring made up of five regular pentagons with a pentagon in the center. Two options are offered to fill the pentagonal space in the center: One is similar tape weaving but, for a better looking result, the preferred method is the application of the classic "twist fold" to the pentagon shaped sheet provided.