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,...
... 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...
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,...
Quoting Ann Schwartz <annschwartz101@...>: [a reply to a reply concerning posting links] Actually, I decided to delete the rest of the quoted message so...
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...
... 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 ...
I have heard of "mouse ladder" and knew just what was meant. I couldn't find my reference about it, but looked in various braiding books I have, and found...
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Hi, Enjoy your weekends! Is this mouse ladder like a Jacob's Ladder? More importantly, Where do you find paper straws? And are they slightly waxed? I have...
Dear John I'm glad you liked my book. Regards Les ... From: John Andrisan To: Flexagon_Lovers@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, August 27, 2005 1:59 PM Subject:...
Dear Ann A hexagon flexagon looks rather like Fig 3.3 on p. 21 of my book, this actually shows a pentagon flexagon. There should have been references to this...
Well, I am also trying to catch up with the posts, so ignore the first part of a recent post, but according to the given link, this is what I grew up calling a...
Hi Les, So the pentagon flexagon, and by extension, the hexagon flexagon does not lie flat? What about the item featured on the front cover of your book? Is...
Dear Ann The object on the front cover of my book is the three faced octagon flexagon described on p. 115. In a subsidiary main position, Figure 8.24, p. 118,...
... I don't have the book handy to check the figures and page references; however the questions seem familiar and maybe one or two comments would apply to the...
I agree that for a flexacube to show flexagon type behaviour it must be flexed in four dimensional space. It must also, I think, have two dimensional hinges....
... Yes, rotations in higher dimensions take place in planes, so in four dimensions there is also a planar axis. I'd forgotten to mention this in an earlier...
With respect to the flexicubes, persistence with Google reveals a sizeable amount of information, which to me is quite interesting. With respect to flexagons...
Dear Mr(?) McIntosh, I really appreciated your article and although I'm a beginner at flexagons, and had a bit of trouble visualizing everything you wrote, it...
... None of these explanations would be valid for traditional origami ... which makes frequent use of cuts, strips and paste. AFAiK it is however true that ...
... This will come up again later on. The thing which I sometimes wonder about, is how close people came to flexagons at one time or another without following...
Hello, I'm a new member of this group and have just made my first hexa-hexaflexagon since high school geometry class (many, many years ago). I am interested in...
Hello The smiley to frown face transformation has been known for some 60 years, so you've rediscovered it. Rotations of the leaves which make up the faces of...
... Yes ... this has always been an intriguing hint. ... I call this the Double Flexitube (since it is double walled). You can not only turn it inside out but...
Subject: flexagons(2) Supposing that it as alright to play with flexagons just because they are fun to play with, here are some suggestions for getting...
It seems to me you came down a bit hard on Vivian (aka Siganita). She stated she was a newbie and hadn't done this stuff for many years. You sound like you're...
Eric Bergmark I don't think so. I was careful to point out that she had made a rediscovery. In the academic world pointing out that something is already known...
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