From Pop-Up Cards to Coffee-Cup Caustics: The Knight's Visor
Abstract
As a pedagogical exercise, we derive the shape of a particularly elegant pop-up card design, and show that it connects to a classically studied plane curve that is (among other interpretations) a caustic of a circle.
- Publication:
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arXiv e-prints
- Pub Date:
- June 2012
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1206.1312
- Bibcode:
- 2012arXiv1206.1312J
- Keywords:
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- Computer Science - Computational Geometry;
- 51N20;
- 53A04;
- F.2.2
- E-Print:
- 12 pages, 13 figures