Compound of 5 Cubes

It seems completely counterintuitive that one should be able to arrange 5 cubes in an intersecting arrangement where every vertex is equally spaced from its nearest neighbour. Yet completely possible and the result is a Compound of 5 Cubes. This papercraft model is a model of exactly that shape, with each different cube carefully shaded so that it can be discerned from the other four cubes.

Download the PDF of the patterns, and create your own papercraft paper model. Simply print out the patterns on 160g Plain White Paper (normal paper is 80g – so twice as thick). Then you can score the folds, cut out the patterns, and finish by folding and gluing them.

Here is a gallery of some photos of the finished product;

Here is a video of the building of this model:

To learn more about the Compound of 5 Cubes see this Wikipedia page for Compound of 5 Cubes.