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Hinged Dissection of an Equilateral Triangle into a Hexagram
This Demonstration gives Lindgren's hinged dissection of an equilateral triangle into a hexagram (which has Schläfli symbol {6/2}).
Contributed by:
Izidor Hafner
Based on work by:
Greg N. Frederickson
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G. N. Frederickson,
Hinged Dissections: Swinging & Twisting
, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002 pp. 144–145.
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Hexagram
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Contributed by:
Izidor Hafner
Based on work by:
Greg N. Frederickson
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