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Several possibly new trihexaflexagon phenomena are presented. The wide spectrum of findings including explorations with magic squares, palindromes, and much more freshly fans the flexagon fun.
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Trailblazing Flexagons Home Gon for details on the hexa-dodeca-flexagon, a newly discovered hexagonal flexagon with 12 pats and 6 faces that is folded from a straight strip of paper. This flexagon displays some unique characteristics, including these: it flexes into a new, flat...Contains an introduction and history of Flexagons and a tutorial in how to make a Hexa-hexa-flexagon.
http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/~d3enar/Flexagon/index.html
1962 technical report which includes an introduction to the history of Flexagons.
http://db.uwaterloo.ca/~eddemain/flexagons/Conrad-Hartline-1962/
Contains instructions on how to fold a flexagon, history of flexagons and printable models of some.
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Flexagons Princeton graduate student, Arthur Stone, played around with a strip of paper trimmed from his notebook and created the first flexagon. A flexagon is a polygon, usually made from paper, that can be folded in certain ways to produce a...Includes a definition of the word, instructions on how to make a Trihexaflexagon, how to flex it and information about it and another flexagon.
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Flexagons If you open the flexagon in the middle, then a new face, which was hidden before appears. How to make a Trihexaflexagon top The simplest flexagon is a trihexaflexagon with three faces The colours in the drawings show you the...A free application that can generate a hexaflexagon template and folding instructions from six user selected images. Examples Source Code included.
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Hexaflexagon Toolkit 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...