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Hexaflexgons and other flipping models

Posted: October 12th, 2009, 1:06 pm
by motomagic
I'm pretty adept at making Maritin Gardners hexaflexagond and doedecahexaflexgons from long strips of paper....I know you have to glue the last flap in place...but...hey its still folding paper as I see it! and I learnt to make them before I learnt origami...so I owe my intrest in origami to Mr G.

I even understand Tuckermans traverse
The mathematics of finding all sides in a flexagon.

There are other flipping models such as "Fireworks" by Yami Yamauchi
There were even a few in some of the Robert Harbin paperback books.

There is even a 3D version of a hexaflexagon on "enchanted learning" the web site you can print off.
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/math/g ... ions.shtml

Does anyone know of any other fold and flip models and instruction that are avaliable, that I might have overlooked?

Thanks

Magic.

Posted: December 29th, 2009, 2:14 am
by redgator12
There is already a thread about flexagons and flippers that have a few interesting links posted. viewtopic.php?t=700&