TRIANGLES ON REGULAR POLYGONS

Excel file: 9.Triangles on Regular Polygons

Manipulating the file paper: 9.Attributes of Excel File 9

Reverse engineering an image: 9.From Angles to Images

General sharpest triangles paper: 9._Sharpest Apex Obtuse Triangles

Part II of PwP concludes with a file that allows you to create an image of triangles embedded in a regular polygon by noting that three non-parallel lines will always create a triangle unless the three lines coincide at a single point. Even if they do coincide at a single point (all three pass through the peak vertex, for example), other lines parallel to the initial lines will create triangles. The Excel file is controlled by 4 parameters j, k, v and w, that define three non-parallel lines between vertices, together with click-boxes to control the image shown. All images created in Files 6, 7 and 8 can be recreated using this file by placing values in cells j, k, v and w or, alternatively, by placing equations in those cells.

The papers above are early drafts. The first paper provides a complete discussion of how to interpret and manipulate the file. The reverse engineering file is a single page document that moves in the opposite direction from the main paper (and file). The second paper, which examines sharpest triangles that are NOT isosceles or right, provides an example of the more general set of images that one can examine using this file. The links below are to more polished material put in a form similar to ESA.

P6. General Triangles This chapter examines a variety of patterns that emerge in the more general setting and concludes with examples of image types that one can analyze using this model.

P7. Concurrence

P8. Rectangles and Parallelograms