1-Flex Unit: An Universal Unit for Archimedean Solids Kusudama

I have always been fascinated by the modular origami unit that is configurable into different types of polyhedron forms. You might have heard of the terms octahedral form or icosahedral form; these are just a few configurations available for kusudama origami. However, there is another class of polyhedron that is called the Archimedean Solids, which combines many types of polygon faces, but is still in regular form (means consistent in some form). 

Many of the origami unit out there can be used for different types of Archimedean Solids, but I found that they are generally limited to just a few types of Solids. In fact, there are 13 Archimedean Solids, and many of the unit out there could not be used to form all 13 without some form of modification or they are simply not rigid to hold the shape. 

Hence, I went into a journey of discovery and found this fold, which I named it 1-Flex unit. It is just a simple edge unit with one flexible point. In order for it to be able to form all Archimedean Solids, it would need to support two ranges of form. One, the vertex. It need to be able to form three vertices, four vertices, and five vertices. Two, the face. It need to be able to form from triangles, squares, pentagons, hexagons, octagons, and finally decagons.

Once these two properties are fulfilled, it is essentially can be called a Archimedean Solids Universal Unit. Here are pictures of the 13 polyhedron made from 984 units of the 1-Flex unit.

If you are interested to fold, the tutorial is available in my YouTube here.