Recent Progress in Dynamic Geometry

Talk Given at 2006 Mathematical Meeting and Annual Meeting of the Mathematical Society

Jen-chung Chuan

National Tsing Hua University

jcchuan@math.nthu.edu.tw

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Plane Geometry: An animation displaying how the five curves (the cardioid, the nephroid, the deltoid, the asteroid and the 4-cusped epicycloid) each moving in rigid motion while all remaining in contact with each other:

Solid Geometry: Animation of virtual models constructed with Cabri 3D

1)      Region enclosed by two parabolic cylinders:

 

2)      Five octahedral about an icosidodecahedron:

3)      The Buckyball:

4)      Hyperbolic Paraboloid:

5)      Small Rhombicosidodecahedron:

6) Truncated Icosidodecahedron:

6)      Coaxal Circles on the Sphere:

7)      Solid with Elliptic Crossections:

8)      Torus Generated by Villarceau Circles

9)      Three-Circle Theorem on the Sphere