My partner Brittany and I decided to completely change our chess piece design. We plan on using white and black card stock paper as our material for the pieces and constructing them into Archimedean solids. I went through the books Heather recommended looking through and they were extremely helpful with our decision to change our design. We also plan to layer the shapes, to give the pieces a height difference. Lastly, we felt that by using card stock paper it would help create a bit of unity between the base (also made of card stock) and the pieces.
List of Pieces Abstracted (Possibilities)
Pawn- Tetrahedron
Knight- Tetrahedron on top of cube
Rook- Truncated Dodecahedron on cube
Bishop- Cuboctahedron on cube
Queen- Rhombicuboctahedron on cube
King- Great Rhombicuboctahedron on cube
Flat-Packed Polyhedra
Archimedean Symmetries & Three-Dimensional Tessellations
Pictures from Platonic & Archimedean Solids by Daud Sutton.
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