Clusters on Regular Polygons
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This Demonstration can construct clusters of regular polygons. The "choose points" control selects two points on which a regular -gon is constructed after pressing "construct polygon". Press this control repeatedly to generate the cluster.
Contributed by: Izidor Hafner (November 2019)
Open content licensed under CC BY-NC-SA
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An example of a cluster of regular polygons is Dürer's sketch [1, p. 40].
Reference
[1] M. Friedman, A History of Folding in Mathematics: Mathematizing the Margins, New York: Springer, 2018.
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