Unfolding a Cone

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This Demonstration shows how to unfold a cone into a planar pie-shaped sector of a circle. The cone is cut along a straight line from its apex. An increasing part of the surface flattens out as the process continues.

Contributed by: Richard Kausch (March 2011)
Open content licensed under CC BY-NC-SA


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