Course: Flexagons Galore: Advanced Flexagon Fun

Fold a pyramid shuffle flex only flexagon Fold the pyramid shuffle flex only flexagon by following these instructions: Download the file below (templates number 11 and 12 in the flexagon …

Watch the video and follow the instructions to build the hexa-hexa-flexagon: Download the file below (template number 4 in the flexagon booklet) which has the templates for the back and …

The first flexagon we’re going to make has three different faces. It is called a tri-tetra-flexagon. Download and print the template below, template number 1, in the flexagon booklet. Watch …

Ann Schwartz’s flexagon approach Ann Schwartz’s approach to flexagons can be seen as the exact opposite of Scott Sherman’s! She’s an experimentalist, so she first creates flexagons by trying out …

Les Pook has written two classic books on flexagon theory. His second book, Serious Fun with Flexagons, is a rigorous, comprehensive analysis of many kinds of flexagons, the nets from …

Here is a cute little enneaflexagon: This is the minimal flexagon needed to do a composite pinch flex known as the P333 flex. You can see the two sides of …

We’ve already seen a few fun things you can do with flexagons. You can use Scott Sherman’s flexagonator or Les Pook’s fundamental nets or just experiment like Ann Schwartz to …

Destroying flexagons can be really fun! Watch the video and try it out for yourself! Discussion What have you learned from cutting your own flexagons?

Up till now, we have learned six flexes: The pinch flex The V flex The flip flex The tuck flex The pyramid shuffle flex The twist flex These flexes are …

Fold a tuck flex only flexagon Fold the tuck flex only flexagon by following these instructions: Download the file below (template number 8 in the flexagon booklet) which has the …

In this week we’ve seen three different approaches to flexagons. Scott Sherman, the computer scientist, builds flexagons flex by flex, Ann Schwartz is an experimentalist and Les Pook focuses on …

Scott Sherman realised that flexagons can be built according to the flexes that you want to do. This makes flexing much easier to learn. A characteristic of all the following …

So! We have reached the end of the course. We do plan on offering more courses like this on Future Learn so please, do stay tuned. The Weizmann Institute of …