Möbius Triangles

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This Demonstration shows Möbius triangles on a sphere. Möbius triangles are congruent spherical triangles that completely cover a sphere without overlap. The angles of these triangles are ,
, and
, where
,
, and
are in the set
. Such a Möbius triangle is denoted by
. There is an infinite family
of dihedral Möbius triangles, and three triangles
,
, and
that correspond to the tetrahedral, octahedral, and icosahedral symmetry groups, respectively.
Contributed by: Izidor Hafner (October 2014)
Open content licensed under CC BY-NC-SA
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The numbers must satisfy the inequality [1, p. 157]. The definition of Möbius triangle was taken from [2, p.189].
References
[1] W. W. R. Ball and H. S. M. Coxeter, Mathematical Recreations and Essays, 13th ed., New York: Dover, 1987 pp. 133, 160.
[2] R. E. Maeder, The Mathematica Programmer II, San Diego: Academic Press, 1996.
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