Families of Four-Point Touching Squares

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This Demonstration shows four-point touching families of squares, squares. You can vary the tilt angles and .

Contributed by: Izidor Hafner (April 2019)
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A family is said to be -touching provided each element of has a nonempty intersection with precisely other elements of . A -touching family is said to be point--touching if any two touching sets have only a single common point [1].

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[1] B. Grünbaum, "Families of Point-Touching Squares," Geombinatorics, 12(4), 2003 pp. 167–174. (Mar 27, 2019) sites.math.washington.edu/~grunbaum/Familiesofpointtouchin.pdf.



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