Subject: flexagons (14) Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:41:55 -0600 (CST) It would appear that fairly random things can be flexagons, and it could be there that a...
Hi, Remember awhile back my nephew had gotten me the link for the Oakley & Wisner article? Well, I've had another request for it, and I can't find it...
Thanks to this wonderful group and its members willingness to help. The article has been sent to me and to the one who requested it, and hopefully will become...
Subject: flexagons (15) Date: Sun, 06 Apr 2003 23:24:52 -0500 (CDT) The construction of flexagons as fractal polygon stacks gives a nice theory with beautiful...
This series of commentaries was intendeded to explain what flexagons are about to someone who had no previous contact with them other than having seen a sample...
Thanks for sending this to my yahoo mail box. I was "bouced" out of the group, but am back! I added your link on the commentaries to the links section of the ...
Hi again. Am back to actively participate in Flex. group again. I see the article mentioned below in the links section of the user group, and it seems to be...
... Hmmm ... just to be sure I understand this! To me a flexitube is a ring of leaves (segments) which forms a tube in an untwisted state. I am not sure what a...
... Yes, this is also my understanding. However, it might be a good idea to make sure of how the word "twisted" got used here. In principle, the walls of the...
... One ought to have a flexagonj or two sitting beside the keyboard to prevent one from writing things like this. To begin with, part of the cycle of the...
... The task being to turn a square walled, square section flexitube inside out using only the creases between the squares and their diagonals as hinges. I...
DM: What will we do then with Robert Neale's Cross Flexagon where DM: all four faces can be found by normal flexes ... but by going DM: through the tube states...
... On the other hand, frieze code from Figure 16 of The Mathemagician &c is + + + - - - | + 3 1 4 6 6 2 | 3 ... 5 5 3 2 4 1 | 5 we could still start by...
... Thanks for this. I thought it had to be ... but it's good to have it confirmed. One source of possible misunderstanding removed! ... The easiest way to...
... Rereading those old articles has been interesting in the light of the experiences and insight acquired during the intervening years. Maybe the difference...
It doesn't look like it is going to be too sasy for me to get a copy of Paul Jackson's booklet, but meanwhile I have been reviewing once again what literature...
Merry Christmas, Happy Chanukah, Happy Kwanza, and Happy New Year to All. May 2006 be filled with peace, prosperity, good health, and many flexagons!...
I've been reading Les Pook's very interesting book "Flexagons Inside Out". Many of his references are hard to locate. I've posted (on the Links page at the...
Neil E. Laithwaite's "Engineer Through the Looking Glass" is a book, based on TV programmes. The British Library in London (central UK reference library) have...
I just sent this posting on to my nephew. He will not be back at school for few days, but he may be able to get a pdf of the article. I'll keep you posted....
... The 'Double Cross Flexagon' is the only flexagon I know of that can be manipulated into its mirror-image form. It doesn't 'through tubulate' but in the...
That would be great! Could you contact yahoo groups and find out why we received so much spam these last two weeks? I banned these "members" but I don't think...
In response to popular demand I've scanned a photocopy of the Engel article which is referred to in my book, and this is attached. I was bounced out of the...
In response to popular demand I've scanned a photocopy of the Engel article which is referred to in my book. I tried sending it as an attachment but the...
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