Paperbrain

This is a paper model of the brain that fits nicely on your desk.

Paperbrain (1.9 MB)

The model has been created with Blender. The zip-file includes four DIN A4 pages that can be directly printed but also the SVG-templates for more manual modifications of the labeling as well as the original blend-file that has been used to unfold the brain.

20 thoughts on “Paperbrain”

  2. Hello,
    I am a teacher at an elementary school in Las Vegas, NV. I am the specialist who runs the Scientific Learning program for K-5 students. I often teach mini lessons about the brain, and I would love to utilize this model. Being a former graphic artist by trade, I can appreciate the work that you’ve put into this. Would you please send me more information about this project? I would love to share it with my students! Thank you.

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    • Hi,
      I was wondering if you received the templates for the paper brain model.
      I would love to use it for school purposes also, specifically the nervous system.

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  3. thank you for your comment and great to hear that you will show it your students. I created the model when I started my PhD in neuroscience. Coming from computer science, it was very helpful for me to learn the anatomy of the brain by creating this model.

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      • I did not create instructions for this model, I am sorry. But there is only one way to stick everything together. I would start with both hemispheres, then attach the temporal lobes and the cerebellum at it and at the end the basement.

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  6. This was a wonderful little project to do. I thank you for providing such a nice template. It’s helped greatly in an assessment for school. I did have to modify the labeling to suit the task, though. There was a slight challenge for me in the construction of the brain, but I enjoyed it greatly. Thank you again. 🙂

    – Naomie, aged 13.

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  7. It’s a great model but where on earth do I put the Right Hemisphere Down and the Left Hemisphere Down? I cannot figure it out

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  9. Hello, I am an education major student who is working on a project which involves a presentation using a live size model of the brain. I would be grateful if you can send me the instruction to this. I think it is a perfect model to go inside my 3d pyramid as a pop-up.

    Thank you in advance

    Erica

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    • Dear Erica, there are no instructions but the 3d-model and the inkscape files are included in the zip-file

      Best,
      Martin

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    • sorry, I currently don’t have a paper model here. But you can download Blender (blender.org) and open the blend-file.

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  11. Hi
    Thanks so much for this amzing template. It took m the first tim about 2h to figure it out and complete but it was woth. The second try was about 40 min.

    A short instruction for those, which don’t want to try by themself. (It’s quite a patience and intelligence test):

    1) Print and cut the forms properly
    2) Start to glue one of the two emisphere. Actually don’t glu but use tape in the inside. So bring the small white overlapping parts to the inside and fix them in the inside with tape.
    2) Complete also the other emisphere and the cerebellum. Try to figure it out through the pictures how you have to fix them togehter.
    3) Complete the under-part by following the colours. After some tries you’ll figure it out.

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  13. Wow, this is awesome.
    I’m teaching occupational therapy students and they had a hard time learning all the different brain regions and their functions. This is an amazing way to give them something fun to do while learning, plus they have a model handy whenever they need it instead of looking stuff up in books. They really love it.
    Wonderful idea, great job and thank you so much for sharing this with public!!!

    Best regards
    Julie

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