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I'm working to complete the English version as soon as
possible. A little patience, please.
You might want to take a look at the Spanish site, though,
it'll give you a pretty good idea of what this is going to be.
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I have included here a number of
diagrams of my own, and many links to those of others'. In some cases, I
have added only notes that somehow express my own experience with them
and I thought might be of use.
DIAGRAMS
& instructions
TRIANGULAR MODULES

They
share a number of features::
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All
of them need a 60º fold somewhere in the folding sequence
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Most
can be used to build stellated polyhedra
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Several
of them work on double parity (or left-right symmetry)
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In
many cases you can replace oor exchange them to build similar pieces
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TSU - THE SIMPLE UNIT
Created
by Chuck Esseltine, it may be found in http://www.anniefolds.com/diagrams.htm.

Typical
for the "cap" on the points. And it doesn't seem so
simple to me, actually, but the models worked on double sided
paper present an interesting strip pattern.
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TRI-MODULe
Created
by Nick
Robinson (link to the diagram), it is used in all
types of stellated models and others. Check Michal
Kosmulski's beautiful pieces. He has built
a Sierpinski fractal triangle/tetrahedron with it. And also a
version of Koch's snowflake (another fractal)
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EQUILATERAL TRIANGLE

I
learned it from Bennet Arnstein's (3D Geometric Origami) and in
this page are my instructions with photos (also in
English). It's very simple and has the same properties as other
more complex modules (like the Double-Pocket Equilateral Triangle
by Tomoko
Fusè, with 20- step instructions!) and as you can see in the
photos, it's most decorative.
A
word of warning: stellated polyhedra with spikes of 5 or more
sides need glueing (the radius is too wide and the points tend
to open), but in the 3 or 4-side spikes no glue is required.
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MM Simple Isosceles UNIT
Another
triangular module to build mostly stellated models.
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OThER
MoDULES
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OXIMoDULe
An
interesting variation of the PHIzz module created by Michal
Kosmulski. His website contains instructions to
fold and assemble several models.

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MÓDULO DE BASES
Created
by Lewis Simon, though it's considered generally a 'classic'.
I learned ir from a Russian
Kusudama book. My instructions are here.
It's a vertex modules and with it you can make stars and
polyhedra of 4 vertex (cubeoctahedron and rhombicuboctahedron),
though I found a way to make a cube.

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UNIDAD PENTAGONAL
Created
by Helena Verrill (www.math.lsu.edu/~verrill/origami)
makes for a very elegant dodecahedron. Her page has very good
folding instructions.

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KANTENMODUL
Created
by Carmen Sprung. It is an edge module with great possibilities
and the diagram is in http://www.origamiseiten.de/diagrams/kmodul02.pdf.

Don
Albert has photos of many polyhedra built with it..
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RAPIDO
Don
Albert (http://don.albert.free.fr/)
has some very interesting modules which he calls "rapido".
The instructions are just a few not very clear photos.
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CURLERS
Con
este módulo se construyen diversas piezas con estructura de
poliedros. Constituye una especialidad por sí mismo. La
técnica de montaje exige enrollar las puntas del módulo entre
sí. He visto en fotos de la British
Origami Society Convention (Gallery 9) unas imágenes
espléndidas de sus posibilidades. Mis instrucciones están aquí,
y en esta página (http://origami.paginas.sapo.pt/index.htm)
hay una secuencia de instrucciones en fotos muy detallada.

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COMPOUND MODULE (t. fUSE)
I
learned it from a photocopy of a book in Japanese... This unit
has grest potential and I haven`t finished exploring its
possibilities. The diagram, in a printer friendly version,
is here and
the photos of the models and bilingual assembly instructions
are in this page.
  
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module cuboctahedron. It flattens when twisted and
becomes a pocket polyhedron... |
30-unit
Icosaedron or Star dodecahedron. |
30-unit
PENTAKIS. When opened, the module takes a romboid shape
similar to the 2-sonobe points used generally to build
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PLANARS
oR INTERSECTING PLANES
All
these models are built with the structure of the axis XYZ intersecting at
a central point. They are classified according to the number of axes (or
planes) they have.

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XYX
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WXYZ
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VWXYZ
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UVWXYZ
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TUVWXYZ
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STUVWXYZ
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POLIEDROS
ESTRELLADOS O STELLADOS

El
número de módulos que se necesitan es igual al número de aristas del
poliedro en cuestión (porque cada módulo triangular forma parte de 2
caras, plegado a lo largo de la arista en que se tocan).
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POLIPOLIEDROS
- POLIEDROS ENTRELAZADOS y Estructuras

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ESTRUCTURA DE HEXAEDROS

Construída
con cristales o hexaedros muy simples, las instrucciones para el
montaje están
aquí.
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EL SISTEMA SNAP
Heimutz
Strobl ha creado una suerte de "sistema de
construcción" con papel al que llama Snapologia,
Mis
instrucciones para la construcción están aquí.
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