Reading Douglas Engel's article 'Hexaflexagon + HFG = Slipagon!' prompted the thought that there must be point flexagon equivalents. There are, in abundance....
Greetings to all members of the Flexagon Lovers group! I am Robert Dawson, a mathematician at Saint Mary's University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Web page: ...
Robert Dawson wrote:> ... Hi Robert Sorry to disappoint you but this is a very famous and well known form. As far as I know it was first discovered by the...
... .... Well, it did seem too simple to be new. Thanks! ... I'm not sure I understand. Do you mean the tube form in the midpoint of the sequence? If so, that...
... I wasn't trying to imply this tube state is the same as the Flexitube. However ... it is a flexitube (there are many) and moreover a double walled one. You...
... Didn't one of the ancient Greek Heroes lay claim to the eventual City of Carthage by a similar performance with a cowhide? - hvm ... www.correo.unam.mx ...
My memory of the Aeneid is that the Carthaginian king told his daughter, Dido, that she could have all the land that she could cover with a cowhide. As to how...
... daughter, ... The cowhide part is correct - well, canonical anyhow. But she was not Carthaginian by birth, as in the tale she founded the city on the land...
Using the same idea, modern cutting equipment should make it possible to pass through the eye of a needle. The steel would have to be softened so that it would...
I managed to make this little flexagon maze. It works pretty well and is surprisingly interesting even with rather few faces. I think making these larger and...
The attached file is another thought provoking flexagon, to add to Scott Sherman's recent posting. Attachments are not stored, so the file has also been...
Very cool. When I was creating the various flexagons for my flexagon bestiary, the ones with an even number of triangles per face were pretty easy since...
Hmmm. There are so many different ways to flex a dodecaflexagon that I¢d worry a maze would end up being too frustrating. So I took a different approach with...
Flexagons are perfect for creating dynamic magic squares (magic stars etc.) There are a great number of design ideas that can be explored. Square flexagons...
Scott's puzzle flexagon is a brilliant and exceptional model. I really like it, it is a great concept. Flexagons like this are wonderful for peaking the...
Very clever. And gorgeous as always. I think Martin Gardner would approve :). I was looking to see what other flexagons might work. If the magic square had...
For many/most flexagons the polygon units on the faces change orientation during flexing. In order to make dynamic magic squares from these flexagons, we need...
I¢ve posted a magic square on a 3-sided right triangle octaflexagon at http://loki3.com/flex/magic/tri-octa.html. This one is interesting because the pinch...
This magic flexagon does have some challenges. Scott worked this out by keeping the triplets of numbers adding up to 111 throughout the magic squares so that...
Almost, but what we need for this flexagon is a magic square with an extra property that works well with the way each sub-square is reflected when flexed. Say...
Yes, this square with the two triplet sums is what I was looking for, although I was trying to create this with only the numbers 1-36 and no duplicates. It...
For those trying to design new triangle flexagons, one detail worth knowing is that there may be more variants of a particular flexagon than there are for the...
This is a significant discovery concerning greater numbers of variations for non equilateral triangle flexagons. I bet this has implications to other polygons...
Here’s a new path puzzle - http://loki3.com/flex/maze/deca-paths.html - this time on a right triangle decaflexagon. I find this one interesting because it...
In haste, my first attempt at this decaflexagon puzzle resulted in an impossible puzzle to solve. Instead of reading the clear directions, I cut out the two...
Earlier this year I had been exploring the dodecaflexagon frieze patterns, and have just recently had a chance to put together the maps for the 3, 4, and 5...
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