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Light from Light
Suellen Floyd Pometto
Butterfly wings are an exquisite medium in which to convey the connections between science and art. They are as delicate, yet complex, as the cycle of life. The scales of the Morpho butterfly ...
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The Stellated Truncated Icosahedron, made of Sonobe Units
Matthew King
This entry shows the strength of mathematical polyhedral, as this model is made entirely without glue or anything but ordinary paper. It is still quite stable because the various parts depend ...
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Five Tone Tetrahedra
Jason Fellers
This figure is made from Origami paper and is a five intersection tetrahedra, which can be inscribed in a dodecahedron (twelve regular pentagonal faces). This entry shows how math can be taught ...
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Origami Hyperbolic Plane
Neil Calkin
The hyperbolic plane was one of the first non-Euclidean geometries to be discovered in the 19th century. However, even the two dimensional hyperbolic plane is hard to represent: it doesn't fit ...
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