Playing With Surfaces: Spheres, Monkey Pants, and Zippergons
Kelly Delp and Bill Thurston

Proceedings of Bridges 2011: Mathematics, Music, Art, Architecture, Culture
Pages 1–8
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Abstract

We describe a process, inspired by clothing design, of smoothing an octahedron to form a round sphere. This process can be adapted to construct many different surfaces out of paper and craft foam.

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