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Possible or Impossible?

The 3D object in the applet below can be rotated by dragging the mouse or, when the Alt key is pressed, moved away or towards the screen.

 

If you were using a Java-capable browser, you would see very nice Possible or Impossible instead of this paragraph.

This applet requires Sun's Java VM 2 which your browser may perceive as a popup. Which it is not. If you want to see the applet work, visit Sun's website at http://www.java.com/en/download/index.jsp, download and install Java VM and enjoy the applet. In addition, you'll need the Java3D library available at http://download.java.net/media/java3d/builds/release/1.4.0_01/java3d-1_4_0_01-windows-i586.exe


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Look at it. Is this a physical reality? My 9 year old son knows to make such a curiosity out of a piece of paper. Do you?

Copyright © 1996-2009 Alexander Bogomolny

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Do It Yourself

Start with a square piece of paper. Plain paper will do just fine. A colored piece should have the same color or design on both sides.

Fold the square and grease it along the black line and then make three cuts indicated but the light lines.

  make three cuts

It will now appear that there are three linked pieces of paper. Rotate the left one 90° clockwise around the black grease. Rotate the right one 90° counterclockwise and you are done.

Copyright © 1996-2009 Alexander Bogomolny

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