[HN Gopher] Learn to Create and Flex Flexagons ___________________________________________________________________ Learn to Create and Flex Flexagons Author : bhy Score : 45 points Date : 2020-07-04 07:57 UTC (15 hours ago) (HTM) web link (loki3.com) (TXT) w3m dump (loki3.com) | 082349872349872 wrote: | related, the mexiflexagon: | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTwrVAbV56o | mkl wrote: | And more related, also from Vi Hart: | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIVIegSt81k, | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paQ10POrZh8, | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmN0YyaTD60 | ascotan wrote: | Is flexagon a made up word? Come on. | rjsw wrote: | Have you never read any Martin Gardner books ? | | The wikipedia page [1] on the things is a good introduction | too. | | [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexagon | dang wrote: | " _Please don 't post shallow dismissals, especially of other | people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something._" | | https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html | detaro wrote: | It's an established mathematical term for these things. Of | course, mathematical terms tend to be "made up" at some point, | but I don't think that's a useful distinction. | Pfhreak wrote: | It's going to blow your mind when you realize all words are | made up. Even more so when you find out that definitions change | and new words are invented every year. | jaclaz wrote: | Though fees may apply, JFYI ;-): | | http://www.marriedtothesea.com/030807/dictionary.gif | JKCalhoun wrote: | The Hexaflexagon unit from "Things of Science" (June 1960): | | http://underlandia.com/index.php/2017/07/17/things-of-scienc... | timpark wrote: | I made some tetra-tetra-flexagons for my wedding, and in the | process made an ImageMagick script to take four images and turn | them into two, one for each side of the sheet of paper. | | https://www.timpark.org/making-a-tetratetraflexagon/ | (unfortunately some of the external links are broken, I should do | some editing) ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2020-07-04 23:00 UTC)