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How to do square roots in paper?

Posted: September 29th, 2013, 6:13 pm
by Swapnil Das
I just saw a crease pattern with a reference on it, and it said: Sqrt (2) + 5. What the hell does that mean???
it's the cp for the walking grasshopper by brian chan and i'd really appreciate some help!

Re: How to do square roots in paper?

Posted: October 6th, 2013, 10:48 pm
by phillipcurl
From Long Quach:
The answer comes straight out of

La Géométrie (1637)
René Descartes
www.gutenberg.org/files/26400/26400-pdf.pdf

The square root of 2.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/85937466@N ... 3098202463

my performance

www.flickr.com/photos/85937466@N02/9137570737/

Hope it makes sense.