[Yajirobe]

Why is a cube 'startling'?

[InitialLastName]

I'm not so well-versed on the aesthetics and expectation of origami, but I can see a few things that seem notable about this cube design (based on a video of someone constructing it [0]):

- Most of the work is done by a single folding motion, i.e. starting from a pre-creased paper, one motion gets you almost all the way to the cube

- All of the visible surface is from the active side of the paper

- the cube appears to be very structurally stable (considering it is made of paper)

[0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVfiPAlXdik

[BaseballPhysics]

Also that slide maneuver to get the initial cube shape is really remarkable. It looks like a magic trick.

[adolph]

Many thanks, that is really satisfying to watch!

The slide into the first folding motion is magical and I'm glad they just go ahead and repeat it in the video because it deserves many viewings.

[fluffyllemon]

I hadn't heard of it, but I checked out a random video Watching how it comes together, there is a step (around 0:40 in this video https://youtu.be/rVfiPAlXdik) where the cube just seems to magically form by itself. It's really neat

[dtgriscom]

Thanks for the time of the key move. I'm a little proud that I wasn't attention-deficit enough to take advantage of it.

[Tao3300]

In a single rotation of the Earth sphere, each Time corner point rotates through the other 3-corner Time points, thus creating 16 corners, 96 hours and 4-simultaneous 24-hour Days within a single rotation of Earth – equated to a Higher Order of Life Time Cube.