Self-Similar Quadrilateral Tilings and Deployable Scissor Grids
Henry Segerman and Kyle VanDeventer

Proceedings of Bridges 2022: Mathematics, Art, Music, Architecture, Culture
Pages 313–316
Short Papers

Abstract

From a self-similar quadrilateral tiling, we construct a scissor grid by replacing each quadrilateral with a scissor linkage. We show that the resulting linkage is deployable if and only if the quadrilaterals are cyclic or parallelograms.

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