From Pop-Up Cards to Coffee-Cup Caustics: The Knight's Visor

preprint2012arXivOpen access

Abstract

As a pedagogical exercise, we derive the shape of a particularly elegant pop-up card design, and show that it connects to a classically studied plane curve that is (among other interpretations) a caustic of a circle.

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