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Scissors Congruence: An interactive demo of the Wallace–Bolyai–Gerwien theorem
- tgv 4y agoNicely done. It doesn't look like a surprising theorem at first sight, though. The wikipedia section on Generalizations does make it a bit more surprising.
- Aardwolf 4y agoNice visual demonstration, I had never heard of this theorem before, but it seems to visually show that any polygon is made out of triangles, any triangle can be turned into a rectangle with a chosen width, those rectangles can be combined into a larger rectangle, from the larger rectangle you can extract other triangles, from which you can make the other polygon...
- zniturah 4y agoLooks interesting, thanks for sharing!