chaos mechanism

This mechanism is two standard V mechanisms cut out as short as tree trunks facing each other on the central fold as arrows pointing to each other.

Built separately, their glue-tabs are pushed through slots in the background, or trimmed or both so that they do not interfere with each other being that close. That is the basic idea of the whole thing. Somebody, that is everybody who does these things, was thinking, hey, since I can use the V to lift, say, lily pads toward the viewer, and I can reverse to lift lily pads away from the viewer, and I can put both onto one card at the same time, what happens if both opposite moving cranes are connected?

It turns out the connection points between the two mechanisms are limited. They can be arms that stretch a string between them. A new surface can be connected at opposing points on the diagonal and that is pretty much it.

It turns out, after making two such V mechanism that the whole thing can be cut out as one in stead of two. The only thing that changes is the shape of glue tabs.

This smaller inset card that twists when it opens is a new surface that content can be glued onto. It is used to fling easter eggs.