Ulrich Mikloweit
Artists
Statement
The objects of my art are polyhedron models, most preferable uniform ones but I also like many others and cannot resist building models of some of them too. My models are made from paper. Since I want to show how the faces look like in nonconvex shapes I cut holes into the facelets so that you can see the hidden parts. I cut the paper with scissors and knives and this is one reason why I use thin paper of 80 g/m2
Artworks
![Image for entry 'Tribute to M.B.'](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsubmit.bridgesmathart.org%2Frails%2Factive_storage%2Fblobs%2Fproxy%2FeyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6Mjc2NCwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ%3D%3D--b7f2ae992bbb7db6d10e9232d01781bf7b7224cc%2Fimg_1912.jpg&w=1536&q=75)
My work is a paper model of a noble polyhedron consisting of 60 congruent faces. It has 60 vertices of 1 type. I discovered it in 2020 by facetting the Snub Icosidodecadodecahedron with the program Stella4D (see my paper in the Bridges proceedings of 2020: https://archive.bridgesmathart.org/2020/bridges2020-257.pdf). The faces are crossed hexagons with a rather weird shape. The model is a torus and it is self-dual. To see this click at the link below the picture, showing a morphing gif of the model to its dual and back.