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| and Hexaflexagon Toolkit |
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A hexaflexagon is a toy that anyone can make using six pictures, a printer and this software! In fact there's some pictures bundled with the app, so you don't even need the pictures!
After cutting out a shape and following instructions you'll produce a folding puzzle/toy.
It's got some odd mathematical properties, and can be a dangerously involving distraction. See the bottom of this page for links to more information.
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icons corresponding to
the nearest location.
A dialog box will pop up. Click Open/Run to install the app.
That should be enough if you just want to print a few flexagons.
If you're Xmas-averse, click
here for a cheer-free version, or
here for a even more minimal
version. (You'll still have to click on one of the
icons).
Here is the sourceforge project page.
This last is badly disorganized because its a dump of links I collected during my hexaflexagon addiction. They are in no particular order
| Jill's World - The Magic of Flexagons | |
| Kathryn Huxtable's Flexagon Page | |
| Magnus Enarsson | |
| Murderous Maths: The Fabulous Flexagons | |
| Flexagon Re'flex'ions - Making & Manuevering Trihexaflexagons | |
| Flexagons | |
| Flexagons | |
| Hexaflexagon Catalog | |
| Hexaflexagons | Until I'd made some instructions of my own I used to link to this page. |
| hexaflexagons | |
| Adam's World - Flexagons and how to make them |
The Colossal Book of Mathematics by Martin Gardner (ISBN: 0393020231 ) is where my addiction started. If you prefer it there's a paperback version (ISBN: 0-956-25623-5) here, but it seems to be more expensive.
My copy was bought for me as a present by my lovely girlfriend from the Quality Paperback Club. (I think it was $20).
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Most of the coding for Hexaflexagon toolkit was done on:
More when I have time...
Pete