Map Fold-outs

Print, cut, fold and glue paper polyhedra to create your own pseudoglobe.

Folded with 160 g/m² paper, 6.5 cm tall

Assembling

Some assembly tips:

• in the map fold-outs, folding lines separating polygon faces are absent; they are included in the crease patterns available here for practice
• precision and patience matter most. Small errors can accumulate and prevent fitting the last faces
• using a dull blade (or a spent ballpoint pen) guided by ruler or straightedge, lightly and carefully score all folding lines before cutting. This will make creasing easier and more precise
• if you prefer scoring the paper’s reverse side to avoid scratching the inked surface, use a needle or pin to punch tiny guide holes at every vertex
• a utility knife guided by a straightedge is more precise than scissors, but please be careful! To keep better alignment, score or cut as many lines as possible without moving the straightedge; also, use the extra alignment ticks included in several maps
• check every white tab’s fit before applying glue
• a single face (shaded in the preview pattern) should be glued last; it has no tabs, so must be aligned by sight
• as a rule of thumb, polyhedra with more (and smaller) faces are harder to assemble. If you take the punch-score-cut-fold approach, expect to spend 7-10 minutes on the tetrahedron, and almost two hours on the truncated icosahedron

Fold-outs

	World maps on a regular tetrahedron (5 high-resolution maps, 8 low-resolution)
	World maps on a cube (10 high-resolution maps, 7 low-resolution)
	World maps on a regular octahedron (5 high-resolution maps, 5 low-resolution)
	World maps on a regular dodecahedron (8 new high-resolution maps, 9 low-resolution)
	World maps on a regular icosahedron (8 high-resolution maps, 12 low-resolution)
	World maps on a truncated octahedron (3 high-resolution maps, 5 low-resolution)
	World maps on a truncated icosahedron (2 high-resolution maps, 7 low-resolution maps)
	World maps on a cuboctahedron (3 high-resolution maps, 8 low-resolution)
	World maps on a rhombicuboctahedron (4 high-resolution maps, 9 low-resolution)

Map Projections