All
these Gift Boxes are constructed on the same principle, and I will only
demonstrate how to build one, which will serve as an example for the rest.
I got the Idea from
an sample of a Sweet Box they distribute here on the occasion of Marriages
and/or Births. The original was a transparent plastic box,
the lid of which was made up of four triangular flaps each ending
in a Heart-Motif, so that when properly closed, the four Hearts form a
Flower. My contribution lies in:
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extending the four-flaps idea to the six surfaces of the cubic box;
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Changing the Heart-Flower Motif to a Spiral-shaped one (perhaps you can
think of other shapes, I did not find any others yet);
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Extending the Cube shape, based on the 'square' type of side, to other
shapes based on a 'triangular' type of side ( the 20-triangle-sided 'ball'
solid and the 12-pentagon-sided solid did not succeed without glue as they
have angle folds that are greater than 90o )
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Using color to enhance its attraction;
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The fact that these shapes hold well together without the need for glue.
The
following sequence of four pictures should demonstrate how to go about
assembling the model.
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These are the two templates
for the cube-boxes:
