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Welcome to the Flexagon Lovers Users Group! This group grew out of an email mailing list that I cobbled from the Internet that included the authors of flexagon...
annschwartz101
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Aug 2, 2005
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Ann Just thought I would like to congratulate you on cobbling this group together! Good to have a forum where things flexagonal can be discussed. It will be...
Dave Mitchell
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Aug 2, 2005
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hi to everyone! my names dani. I have been doing origami for many years. when the post came up for the flexagon group and a few other posts concerning...
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Aug 2, 2005
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Hi, David. I THINK members can edit their profiles themselves and add more information, but yes, it would be great for people to introduce themselves. So if...
annschwartz101
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Aug 2, 2005
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Hi, Dani. Dave's answer to your conundrum is to buy two copies of his book ;-) If you search under Flexagon in your browser, you'll find pages and pages of...
annschwartz101
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Aug 2, 2005
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I love flexagons, but especially because I print out pictures or advertising on the individual sections, then fold, cut, etc. and you've got a flexagon that's...
JRutzky
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Aug 3, 2005
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Well, I thought I was just replying to Dani, and I see that the flexagon lovers group is in the "to" line. So I will address this to Dani and others. She...
Kathy Knapp
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Aug 3, 2005
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Kathy, hello! I would LOVE to get the Oakley and Wisner article! Hooray for the users group! annschwartz101@... ... flexagon lovers group is in the "to"...
annschwartz101
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Aug 3, 2005
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I'm Vernon Gutenkunst, the flexagon obsessed individual that discovered almost exactly six years ago that I was not correctly assembling my very first science...
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Aug 3, 2005
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Hello Anne, I'm Eric from Portland, OR and am relatively new to origami (but not paper). Started in 2000! I am a member of POPS, our local folding group, and...
Eric
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Aug 4, 2005
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... and some more things like this... (note wierd formatting symbols!) But it's nice to see the group getting off to a start with some news, comments, and the...
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Aug 4, 2005
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This is just a few thoughts on flexagons now that the Flexagon Lovers Users Group is up and running. Thanks Ann. I am a retired engineer loving near London,...
LES POOK
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Aug 4, 2005
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... Interesting question! One of the reasons that flexagons aren't so often included in origami books is that you have to cut the paper (and often glue it too)...
Dave Mitchell
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Aug 4, 2005
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I'd just like to add my appreciation for all those responsible for starting the flexagon site and providing such interesting history and additional sites....
Joan Michaels Paque
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Aug 4, 2005
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Hi Joan and welcome aboard. And a thank you (and you're welcome)to everyone for all the nice words. It's great to see all these messages and discussions. One...
annschwartz101
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Aug 5, 2005
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An interesting quote from GENIUS: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman by James Gleick, in his passage on flexagons: "Centuries of origami had not produced...
Ann Schwartz
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Aug 6, 2005
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My fellow flexagon lovers, I have added some photos of me and 'Rubik's Cube' 2005, a taste of the infinite variety of puzzles that can be created using my...
Vernon Gutenkunst
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Aug 10, 2005
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My fellow flexagon lovers, I had to temporarily drop my Yahoo site due to money shortages this month. However, my original six year old site on AOL should...
Vernon Gutenkunst
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Aug 13, 2005
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Hi Les, I borrowed a copy of your book from an origami friend, Bennett Arnstein, and I find your book very interesting. john...
John Andrisan
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Aug 27, 2005
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I'm John Andrisan, a retired mainframe systems programmer at IBM and McDonnell Douglas here in Southern California. I first encountered flexagons in my college...
John Andrisan
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Aug 27, 2005
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I've made models of the star-shaped flexagons from Flexagons Inside Out, such as the one on page 145, "Compound ring of eight rhombi," and they are...
Ann Schwartz
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Aug 28, 2005
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I'm forwarding this at the request of Mary Lou who believes that her source wasn't successful in posting this to the group. Vern Hello all (Vern, I sent this...
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Aug 31, 2005
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I sent the link below to my nephew, Chris, and he replied with the request below. Can anyone offer anything? Thanks, Kathy Knapp "Now that one looks cool,...
Kathy Knapp
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Sep 6, 2005
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... This seems to be an interesting variant on the bregdoid, described in the Conrad-Hartline flexagon report. The interesting part is that it can be used to...
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Sep 6, 2005
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Hello Kathy and all Has your nephew tried all the shorter strip projects with narrow strips such as the fish, grasshopper, the German star (with 4 strips), the...
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Very interesting article. I just put the url in the links section of this User Group. And thank you, Erik, for posting these articles on the Web. Everyone,...
Ann Schwartz
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Sep 7, 2005
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Quoting Ann Schwartz <annschwartz101@...>: [a reply to a reply concerning posting links] Actually, I decided to delete the rest of the quoted message so...
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Sep 7, 2005
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I think that the the flexible joinings in these cubic and tetrahedral rings are called double hinges. john...
John Andrisan
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Sep 7, 2005
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Ann, and other who replied to the O-list with suggestions to send on to my nephew, Thanks. But now my question, I apparently am not getting the majority of the...
Kathy Knapp
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Sep 7, 2005
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... I haven't heard this term before but I suspect it is what in Europe is also called a Devil's Staircase ... and is made by weaving two stips of paper ...
Dave Mitchell
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Sep 8, 2005
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