Hinged Dissection of a Pentagram to a Decagon

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This Demonstration shows a hinged dissection of a pentagram to a decagon.

Contributed by: Izidor Hafner (June 2013)
Open content licensed under CC BY-NC-SA


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Frederickson used Lindgren's six-piece dissection of a pentagram to decagon to turn it into this seven-piece hinged dissection.

Reference

[1] G. N. Frederickson, Hinged Dissections: Swinging & Twisting, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002 pp. 139–140.



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