Self-Similar Quadrilateral Tilings and Deployable Scissor Grids
Proceedings of Bridges 2022: Mathematics, Art, Music, Architecture, Culture
Pages 313–316
Short Papers
Abstract
From a self-similar quadrilateral tiling, we construct a scissor grid by replacing each quadrilateral with a scissor linkage. We show that the resulting linkage is deployable if and only if the quadrilaterals are cyclic or parallelograms.