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| Topic: | CutOuts What does the 0 to 1 interval mean? |
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| Subject: | RE: CutOuts What does the 0 to 1 interval mean? |
| Author: | lanius |
| Date: | Aug 10 2006 |
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> I think the 1 to 100 scale refers to the percentage of the dihedral
> angle each face has been rotated. For example, if you build a cube
> and set the scale to 50, it looks as if the angle between each
> square face is 45 degrees which is half the dihedral angle for a
> cube of 90 degrees. Why when you move the pointer to 100 does 10
> appear in the little box?
I couldn't think of a mathematically precise way to describe it. "Closed up half
way" just didn't cut it. Thanks, Jon. I can't recreate the 10 appearing in the
little box, however. That doesn't happen in my browser.
Do you know of a tool that would allow the students to put the polygons together
to form the net. I think that would be a nice problem. How do you put the
polygons together into a net so that it will fold up to form the polyhedron? So
then it would be problem solving rather than just a demonstration.
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