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Peter's Snowflake, opus 274

Medium: Thirty uncut squares
Composed: 1993
Folded: 1993
Size: 8"
Diagrams: British Origami Magazine no. 169, December, 1994; BOS Convention 1995 Spring
Comments: I've always been intrigued by the "compound of five tetrahedra" solid and thought it a great origami modular challenge. I have to say, however, that Tom Hull's rendition from Ow units is the definitive version.

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