I agree that a flexagon simulation is better aimed at exploring certain ideas rather than provide a full interactive animated experience. But given the visual...
I do not think the following statement is true. "the v-flex only works on flexagons made of equilateral triangles" I named the V-flex for my students Alan...
Scott,  I added the second item from your wishlist to my Flexagon Simulator (http://flexagon.vlexo.net/scripts/FlexagonSimulator.cgi) - to find which...
Bruce Thanks for the information about your paper 'The combinatorics of all regular flexagons'. I've downloaded the paper, and am now trying to digest it. Les...
A 6-flexagon from 18-leaf straight strip has just two V-classes with rotational symmetry of order 3. Here is the sequence to flex it from one of these...
By the way, there is a simple proof that the number of v-flexes (11)Â in this sequence is the minimal possible (assuming that only pinch flexes and v-flexes...
Interesting. I always assumed the V was simply because of the shape involved. Ah yes, you can do the v-flex on other triangles flexagons. I had tried various...
Looks like it could be fun to build and fly http://www.instructables.com/id/Bell-Tetrahedral-Kite/ Bell Tetrahedral Kite Alexander Graham Bell used tetrahedral...
Yaacov, did you find a way to fit the tuck flex into your current framework of the flexagon formulas and edge weights? Will it extend to other flexes? As...
Scott, Yes, tuck flex fits into my framework, and I believe any other flex does as well. What's the next flex that you would like me to add to the simulator? ...
Well, you now support what I think of as the most basic flexes on the hexaflexagon, the pinch, v and tuck. They each require at least 9 leaves for the minimal...
I've posted a new video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDN1Tbsxkec that shows one sort of illusion you can make on a flexagon. I start out by showing how...
I've diagramed all the states you can get to on a 5 sided hexaflexagon using the pinch flex, v-flex, tuck flex and pyramid shuffle. You can find this diagram...
It's interesting to look at how each of the flexes is represented in the state diagram for the 5 sided hexaflexagon. It may be surprising to see that every...
Interesting. I like having confirmation that almost all the states of that hexaflexagon are mapped out. The 3 missing states when all the leaves are uniquely...
Scott, Â A nice diagram! Indeed it shows very clearly that tuck flex and pyramid shuffle add a lot to pinch flex and v-flex. Â I started to compare it to my...
I found the missing state. I should have made one more prediction about it based on the 64 states I found versus the 65 Yaacov predicted. The missing state...
I believe that there are a lot of pairs of states folded from the same strip that cannot be converted using reasonable flexes, and therefore this result can be...
After some more experimentation, I've found that there are several more elegant ways to get to that missing state, flexes that don't require an emergency...
When I wrote my last message, I ran a program that checked for every strip up to 15 leaves whether there are pairs of states not transformable one to the...
Yaacov talks about several flexagons in a previous post. To make it easier for others to try them out, I have templates for some of them available at...
Scott, Indeed 111111111111 has 36 states rather than 12 - I actually meant the number of pinch classes. Also, the distance is 12, not 24 as I wrote. I am...
I found the 12 leaf hexaflexagon interesting enough that I added some decoration to it and posted a video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hh4mfJDSeNU. I put...
My book 'Serious Fun with Flexagons. A Compendium and Guide." has now been published by Springer. They have made a good job of it. The book is up to date to...
Cool. Glad to see the book is finally out. And judging from the color pictures (http://lespook.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/pook-figs-f-c.pdf), looks like...
"Serious Fun with Flexagons" looks like a fascinating, comprehensive treatment of the subject, a seminal work. I'm including the link to Amazon below. The...
I just spotted a maze somebody else put on a flexagon - http://www007.upp.so-net.ne.jp/ponmama/hekisagon1.htm. The site is in Japanese, but there's enough...
video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVRqS4eDxnk template: http://loki3.com/flex/ennea.html I'm continuing my video series on triangle flexagons with the...
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