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Meshes preserving minimum feature size request pdf. For step 3 of hinged dissections, you said that the number of pieces roughly doubles at each step, but from the diagrams it looks like the number of pieces would more than double. We now describe how to combine the preceding steps with ideas of. Cambridge university press 9780521525824 dissections. A read is counted each time someone views a publication summary such as the title, abstract, and list of authors, clicks on a figure, or views or downloads the fulltext. This website uses cookies to ensure you get the best experience on our website. Geometric dissection is the mathematical art of cutting figures into pieces that can be rearranged to form other figures, preferably. This paper presents a general family of 3d hinged dissections for polypolyhedra, i. Can you cut an octagon into five pieces and rearrange them into a. Efficient regular polygon dissections springerlink. These are just two of the many challenges of geometric dissections, the mathematical art of cutting figures into pieces that can be rearranged to form other figures, using as few pieces as possible. My book explores an area of mathematical recreations, called geometric dissections. Computational design of steady 3d dissection puzzles. This book promises to serve as the bible of recreational dissections for at least a generation, just as harry lindgrens recreational problems in.

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