Flexagon, Art

Awareness of the outside world. Scientific American: Cats Are Perfect. An Evolutionary Biologist Explains Why, Wong 2023.

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Four pieces of paper glued at the outer corners. The result folds on itself in an infinite loop. In the gallery above, the corner photos are the four phases states. The mid-line photos show one side folded under. More of a flexi-square than a true flexigon, which is a portmanteau of “flexible hexagon”. If the image does not display as a 3×3 grid, it may render more accurately on a larger screen. Phones screens do weird things to galleries.

From an online workshop about flexagons given by Nancy Akerly, Liberty Grove Paper Arts, as part of The Paper Year, run by Helen Heibert.

SciAm: Here’s How to Make Flexagons—Folded Strips of Paper with Strange and Surprising Properties, Gardner 1956.

Onwards!
Katherine