8758
TOPICS
LATEST
ABOUT
AUTHORING AREA
PARTICIPATE
Your browser does not support JavaScript or it may be disabled!
Rolling Polygons
A simple exercise on programming with complex numbers. An
-gon is rolled on a straight line. Up to six bumps are taken.
Contributed by:
Jaime Rangel-Mondragon
THINGS TO TRY
Automatic Animation
SNAPSHOTS
RELATED LINKS
Polygon
(
Wolfram
MathWorld
)
PERMANENT CITATION
"
Rolling Polygons
" from
the Wolfram Demonstrations Project
http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/RollingPolygons/
Contributed by:
Jaime Rangel-Mondragon
Share:
Embed Interactive Demonstration
New!
Just copy and paste this snippet of JavaScript code into your website or blog to put the live Demonstration on your site.
More details »
Download Demonstration as CDF »
Download Author Code »
(preview »)
Files require
Wolfram
CDF Player
or
Mathematica
.
Related Demonstrations
More by Author
Rolling Polygons in a Circle
Jaime Rangel-Mondragon
Polygon Spirals
Sándor Kabai
Derived Polygon
Ed Pegg Jr
Nested Polygon Disks
Michael Schreiber
Selected Reflections in the Sides of a Regular Polygon
Michael Trott
Products of Diagonal Lengths in the Regular Polygon
Susan Hurley
Roots of a Complex Number
Germán Alvarado Jiménez
Nested Regular Polygons
Jaime Rangel-Mondragon
A Polygon from Its Midpoints
Jaime Rangel-Mondragon
Triangle Circles and Spirals
Sándor Kabai
Related Topics
Complex Numbers
Plane Geometry
Polygons
Recreational Mathematics
Browse all topics
Related Curriculum Standards
Common Core State Standards for Mathematics
HSG-GMD.A.1
HSG-MG.A.1
Note: To run this Demonstration you need Mathematica 7+ or the free Mathematica Player 7EX
Download or upgrade to
Mathematica Player 7EX
I already have
Mathematica Player
or
Mathematica 7+