Kaleidoscope with One Horizontal and Two Vertical Mirrors

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This Demonstration shows a kaleidoscope with one horizontal and two vertical mirrors. You can set the dihedral angle between the vertical mirrors to be , where .

Contributed by: Izidor Hafner (May 2016)
Open content licensed under CC BY-NC-SA


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[1] W. W. Rouse Ball and H. S. M. Coxeter, Mathematical Recreations and Essays, 13th ed., New York: Dover Publications, 1987 pp. 155–161.



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