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Magic Flexagons

Tips for Folding

Here are some general tips for cutting, folding, pasting, and constructing flexagons.

Flexagon Challenge

If you want to test your flexagon skills, check out the dodecaflexagons. Below is a tetra-dodecaflexagon with fractal faces folded from a hexagonal template.

Triflex with Pattern

Here is a Trihexaflexagon with an interesting color pattern. Fold as for other Trihexaflexagons.

Recommended Links

Check out all of the Ann Schwartz flexagon articles here.

Here are some of the best technical articles on the flexagon available mostly by Dr. McIntosh and also hosted by Dr. McIntosh.

Les Pook not only has a facinating website he also has a great book, I think the only book in print, on flexagons.

Scott Sherman has the best information on how to make a large variety of flexagon beasts anywhere on the web.

Hexaflexagon Maps - 9 sides

There are articles and other references to the straight strip 9 sided hexaflexagon called the nonahexaflexagon. There are straight strip flexagons for if the number of sides is divisible by 3. Dr. McIntosh describes these as flexagons with star maps. Be sure to read his papers on this topic as it is quite interesting. There is only one Map for this frieze pattern. All straight strip flexagons with more than 9 sides have multiple maps. See the Zodiac 12 sided flexagon for the 5 maps that will generate it. As with all my maps, the reverse face numbering is in the tables and can easily be marked on the back of the top triangles. Note that this flexagon has an odd number of sides and so the middle section has reverse numbering. Here it is:

More to come.........

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