Flexagons Recreations Math

Flexagons

A flexagon is a hexagon, which you can make from a strip of triangles. The objective is to open the flexagon in the middle and have a previously hidden face appear. The members of this group-- Richard P. Feynman, Bryant Tuckerman, John W. Tukey, and Arthur H. Stone, had laid the groundwork for all consequent study, through developing their yet unpublished theory, by the early 1940's. When the group disbanded, the flexagon was left, nearly forgotten, for ten years. Then, toward the beginning of the fifties, it received slight publicity with several very brief articles in mathematics magazines.

• - Instructions on how to make a flexagon with pictures and an short introduction to flexagons.
  
• - Includes a definition of the word, instructions on how to make a Trihexaflexagon, how to flex it and information about it and another flexagon.
  
• - 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.
  
• - 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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