IKOSTAR & Tomagari-Natto

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IKOSTAR
IKOSTAR
The object is woven by 6X5=30 steel wires.

The vertices are located at the same places as icosahedron.
IKOSTAR Inventor is unknown, on the case printed:
"WOVENWIRE" IKOSTAR
"HANDWOVEN IN THE USA" 1988

IKOSTAR You can fold the object into line.



Tomagari-Natto
natto
The object is woven by 3X10=30 bamboo rods.

The vertices are located at the same places as dodecahedron.



natto This object is invented by Akio Hizume indipendently when he is studying quasicrystal model "star cage".



natto

If you rotate, the object expand.

IKOSTAR and Tomagar-Natto are characterized it's core structure.American artist John Kostick presented at first in 1960's.

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