yet another origami box divider

This is pretty nifty-- a five-section divider with a large half-area square/diamond/star-shaped central compartment and four smaller 1/8th-area right triangles in the corners. Fits into Tomoko Fuse's standard four-part modular square box bottoms.

I'd been wondering about the feasibility of something like this for a while, and finally started messing around with paper today to see if it could be done. What I ended up with is a mutant version of the traditional one-piece masu box, sorta turned inside-out or upside-down or something. It uses the same size of paper as the box modules.( Read more... )