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Hi Kathy, What you've got there is called a kaleidocycle, which is a ring of tetrahedra rather than a collection of triangles. And it looks like you found...
Scott Sherman
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Hello, please visit my page http://www.mathematische-basteleien.de/kaleidocycles.htm. Greetings from Germany Jürgen ... Hello, please visit my page ...
Juergen Koeller
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Hi Kathy ... It looks like a kaleidocycle http://www1.ttcn.ne.jp/~a-nishi/kaleidocycle/z_ani_kaleido.html This page might give you some more ideas for the...
Adrian Rossiter
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THANKS to all who answered. As soon as I read the first one with the name Kaleidocycle, a light went off in some dark recess of my brain. I have just spent...
Kathy Knapp
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Jul 17, 2008
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Attached is a file describing a Hooke's joint flexagon. The file has also been uploaded to the Member's Section of the website. The Hooke's joint flexagon is...
Les Pook
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Aug 30, 2008
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That's an intriguing hinge. Once you figure out how to make it, the model works quite nicely. I immediately started thinking about interesting patterns and...
Scott Sherman
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I don't think it's possible to construct Hooke's joint flexagons that will traverse more than one cycle. The reason is that from a mechanical engineeering...
Les Pook
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Sep 5, 2008
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I just watched most of a commercial from Target (I missed the beginning).  The images were unfolded as if from the 8cube flexagon (whose name I don't recall)....
Kathy Knapp
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Sep 9, 2008
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It's called a flexicube. I make them out of folded/ROBO-cut paper with pictures. jeff...
Jeff Rutzky
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Sep 10, 2008
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... From: mcintosh@... <mcintosh@...> Subject: Re: [Flexagon_Lovers] Re: 4-8 gon  I think even Arthur Stone held a position at...
Frank Bernhart
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Oct 7, 2008
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Awhile back I posted descriptions and pictures of some of the flexes you can perform on different versions of the triangle dodecaflexagon. I finally got...
Scott Sherman
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Oct 26, 2008
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Nice videos! These videos really helped me see how each of these flexes work and especially the flow that Scott has created for each of the flexes. I was...
Robin C. Moseley
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Oct 26, 2008
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... flexes you can perform on different versions of the triangle dodecaflexagon. I finally got around to posting videos, which give you a much better feel for...
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Oct 28, 2008
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Hi In Ann Schwartz's article about dodecaflexagons: http://www.eighthsquare.com/12-gon.html The template, is that a hexa dodeca flexagon? Bohan...
Bohan Yu
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Oct 30, 2008
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Thank you Scott for your post. I have sent it to everyone that I know. The details on our site are a little sketchy, but we would like to announce that we have...
Bruce McLean
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Oct 30, 2008
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Interesting results, Bruce. It's impressive how many extra combinations there are when you add in the v-flex. Is your technique specifically for the 3n...
Scott Sherman
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Nov 1, 2008
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Yes. A flexagon with 12 triangles per face has been called a dodecaflexagon or 12-gon. And when it has 6 sides, it's a hexa-dodecaflexagon. (I think a lot...
Scott Sherman
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Nov 1, 2008
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There are some more flexagon videos on YouTube, mostly hexaflexagons, including some nicely decorated examples. Les Pook...
Les Pook
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Nov 3, 2008
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As you know regular flexagons of order 3n are made from straight strips of paper that contain 9n triangles. When my students helped me count the one of order...
Bruce McLean
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Nov 8, 2008
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Scott, these are really fantastic as is your site and the new flexagons on your site. A flex you call the pinch pivot looks like what Pedersen and Hilton call...
Ann Schwartz
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Thanks Ann. I think I'm going to have to get that Pedersen and Hilton book - you've mentioned several interesting items from it. What type of flexagon does...
Scott Sherman
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Nov 13, 2008
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I've posted a video of some of the flexes you can perform on a hexaflexagon at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGQ_I4_N3sE. I picked a 5-sided hexaflexagon...
Scott Sherman
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Nov 14, 2008
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On BUILD YOUR OWN POLYHEDRA: Some other members of this user group have reported that the book is very hard to find now; I think it is out of print. I did,...
Ann Schwartz
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Nov 14, 2008
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I posted a hexaflexagon with face patterns from Sangaku Japanese Temple Geometry problems. You can find this on the right column of the www.flexagon.,net home...
Robin C. Moseley
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Nov 15, 2008
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Fascinating video! When I first read about the v-flex and tried to figure it out from text descriptions found on the Internet, I almost gave up. Scot's video...
Robin C. Moseley
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Nov 15, 2008
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Ann I've ordered a copy of 'Homage to a Pied Puzzler' and look forward to reading your chapter, and seeing how your analysis compares with some of my findings....
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... I am trying to construct the five-faced braided hexaflexagon but am having some trouble understanding the diagram. Part of the difficulty is that some of...
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Ah, it looks like I forgot to mention on that page that you'll get a large version of the strip if you click on the small picture. The numbers should be very...
Scott Sherman
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Ah right, I had forgotten you had posted that chapter. (BTW, it looks like Amazon has a few used copies of that book for sale.) So I looked at...
Scott Sherman
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Yes, it's surprising how complex even simple paper folding is. In one of Martin Gardner's columns, he discussed postage stamp folding. Start with a line of n...
Scott Sherman
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