Tuesday, April 26, 2011
A closed meander of order 120: a closed curve that intersects a line at 120 points, without intersecting itself.
Thursday, April 14, 2011
A polyhedron constructed by folding along the edges of a Spidron - a figure in the plane made up of two alternating sequences of isosceles triangles.
Monday, April 11, 2011
Sunday, April 10, 2011
This is a Klein diagram by Francisco Lara-Dammer that represents A5, the group of symmetries of the icosahedron.
A pattern showing the result of six levels of recursion using the "inflation rules" of Penrose tiles. By L. Kerry Mitchell.
Thursday, April 7, 2011
Kürschák's Dodecagon
A visual proof by Kürschák that a regular 12-sided polygon inscribed in the unit circle has area 3. This means that estimating π to be 3 is like saying a circle is a Dodecagon.
A visual proof by Kürschák that a regular 12-sided polygon inscribed in the unit circle has area 3. This means that estimating π to be 3 is like saying a circle is a Dodecagon.
Labels:
equal areas,
pi,
polygons,
unit disc,
visual proof
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
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