From Pop-Up Cards to Coffee-Cup Caustics: The Knight's Visor
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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.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- CoRR
دوره abs/1206.1312 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2012