3-D Geometric Origami: Modular Polyhedra

The book is excellent but if you expect to see color picture there is none, and this could be a discourage for some people.

I bought it for my mom, and she had a blast. She made all kids of origami. She is hooked!

This slim volume has some nice features that make up for a lack of illustrations and model photos, including a clever pentagon template, tips for cutting equilateral triangles & hexagons, and suggestions for cutting multiple pieces for the projects. I especially enjoyed working with the triangle, simple square, and the spike ball modules, which I used to make solid, satisfying models. The "triangle edge module" can be used to make a nice tetrahedron or an icosahedron (which helped me see the relationship between that shape and a dodecahedron). I skipped a couple of spiky models that required glue, but I was generally very pleased with the book.

Really interesting but the directions are tedious, vague and not easy to follow

I ordered this book for some fun math activities at the end of the year. I'll need time to learn how to make the projects; some of them are quite complex. From a geometry standpoint, the book will be a useful extension at school.

Extremely dry technical illustrations, no step-by-step instructions. This is an old, technical manual that assumes you are already an expert in normal and advanced origami, with a new cover that gives the impression it's going to give you step-by-step instructions. However, the first step in each project is actually a finished origami base, such as the "frog" base becomes the "crane." But far more complicated. My 12-yr-old has an engineering mind and folds origami and cuts kirigami at expert levels, but this non-kusudama guide left us both struggling. Search here on Amazon for "kusudama" to find the correct 3D origami.

Nicely illustrated, pretty easy to follow. Tried a few of the models finding them fun to do. Wouldn't recommend for someone just starting.

Not as in depth as I'd like. No color photos. I paid for what I could have just as well got on the internet for free.