A Web of Confocal Parabolas in a Grid of Hexagons
Metric Geometry
2022-05-27 v3 Computational Geometry
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Abstract
If one erects regular hexagons upon the sides of a triangle , several surprising properties emerge, including: (i) the triangles which flank said hexagons have an isodynamic point common with , (ii) the construction can be extended iteratively, forming an infinite grid of regular hexagons and flank triangles, (iii) a web of confocal parabolas with only three distinct foci interweaves the vertices of hexagons in the grid. Finally, (iv) said foci are the vertices of an equilateral triangle.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2112.02157,
title = {A Web of Confocal Parabolas in a Grid of Hexagons},
author = {Peter Moses and Dan Reznik},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2112.02157},
year = {2022}
}
Comments
18 pages, 21 figures, 3 video links