JSP/DR1 Demo:

Quadrilateral Coil

2 February 1997

In this sketch, congruent quadrilaterals are joined edge to edge. You can vary the shape of the quadrilaterals by dragging the vertices at the yellow quadrilateral.

This sketch reveals a DR1 bug in the white space that occasionally appears between adjacent quadrilaterals. Polygon interiors in DR1 degrade JavaSketchpad's numeric accuracy; a coil of successive polygons shows the compound effects of such error.

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If you drag the coil into oblivion, you can reset the sketch to its original shape by pressing the up-arrow key.

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This page was created in part by the DR1 release of JavaSketchpad, a prototype component ofThe Geometer's Sketchpad. Copyright ©1990-1997 by Key Curriculum Press, Inc. All rights reserved. Portions of this work are being funded by the National Science Foundation (award DMI-9561674 ).