Dürer's Impossible Net

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This Demonstration shows a truncated cube , Dürer's impossible net for , two overlapping nets and one good net.

Contributed by: Izidor Hafner (March 2011)
Open content licensed under CC BY-NC-SA


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The image of Dürer's impossible net was taken from [1, p. 36], where its history is described.

Reference

[1] M. Friedman, A History of Folding in Mathematics: Mathematizing the Margins, New York: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2018.


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