Folding a Mitre into a Gnomon

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This Demonstration shows how to fold a mitre into a gnomon.

Contributed by: Izidor Hafner (January 2013)
Open content licensed under CC BY-NC-SA


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In [1] the transformation is called a saddle-cyclic folding of a mitre to a gnomon.

Reference

[1] G. N. Frederickson, Piano-Hinged Dissections: Time to Fold!, Wellesley, MA: A. K. Peters, 2006 pp. 20–21.



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