Scott, Â 1) Support for other triangle flexagons - hopefully in the future 2) Which faces to split in order to perform a given flex - a nice idea! Hopefully...
A base shape is a flexagon that doesn't flex. For a hexaflexagon, the base shape is a hexagon made of 6 equilateral triangles (basically what you get if you...
I Built Website for video of Origami Page- easy paper folding crafts for children and upload it at http://origami.yasmina-eg.com and here other services that I...
I chose the ><^ notation specifically because it's easy to distinguish a flex from simply orienting the flexagon and because it's very obvious what the symbols...
While the flexagon formula and pat structure provide useful information, they take a bit of knowledge and effort to interpret. Thus my wishlist includes...
... This latter is what defines a frieze in the flexagon context, the first requirement making the structure one-dimensional, the second making it stackable. ...
Scott, Â I accept your suggestion to have two alternative representations - ">" or "R", "<" or "L", "^" or "U". Actually I would prefer to call "^" "Flip"...
... True, this definition doesn't restrict you to a flat figure, but neither does it restrict you to a simple polygon. In _Flexagons Inside Out_, for example,...
Scott, Â Regarding (3): I see now what you mean. I think I will add a clickable flexagon in the future, however it is not very high in my order of priorities....
I've posted a video demonstrating a 6 sided bronze hexaflexagon at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDlTAwMGgCw. You can find instructions on how to make it at...
Agreed, <-1=> looks a bit nonsensical as a math formula. So I've switched the silver tetra flex from R to St to leave RLU as alternates to ><^. Sounds like a...
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...
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