Hand-made Coriolis Cuboctahedron Space Station!

I was inspired to make a Coriolis Space Station (a cuboctahedron) after seeing the recent Elite: Dangerous art book while reading The Hand by Frank R. Wilson (recommended to me by Milton Glaser).

The finished piece not quite floating, but 🌟glowing🌟 in my workspace!

Update 2016-08-19: Comments from my high school graphics teacher :)

The Hand for inspiration

Elite: Dangerous for inspiration

Scissors

Adhesive tape

6 squares (post-it notes)

8 equilateral triangles

Build Process

Kepler City seen from a distance of ~8km in the HR244 system of the Elite: Dangerous simulator.

See you in space, Commander!

—Cmdr Griffee

My high school graphics teacher, Master Alan Ceen's, reply:

It is much simpler with a little use of Graphics (remember Simon?) to obtain the 2D net for the Cuboctahedron.

And the instruments that did it in 12 minutes flat.

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