From Pop-Up Cards to Coffee-Cup Caustics: The Knight's Visor
Computational Geometry
2012-06-07 v1
Abstract
As a pedagogical exercise, we derive the shape of a particularly elegant pop-up card design, and show that it connects to a classically studied plane curve that is (among other interpretations) a caustic of a circle.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1206.1312,
title = {From Pop-Up Cards to Coffee-Cup Caustics: The Knight's Visor},
author = {Stephanie Jakus and Joseph O'Rourke},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1206.1312},
year = {2012}
}
Comments
12 pages, 13 figures