Constructions by Reflecting in a Line

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Drag a point from a corner of the square to produce a line. You can draw four lines, colored red, blue, green and magenta. You can save lines. You can drag the four points
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Reflections are equivalent to paper folding.
To show the validity of Huzita's sixth axiom, draw two lines using the red line.

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Huzita's axioms[1, pp. 285–286]:
A1. Given two points, you can fold a crease line through them.
A2. Given two points, you can fold a crease along their perpendicular bisector, folding one point on top of the other.
A3. Given two lines, you can fold their bisector crease, folding one line on top of the other.
A4. Given two points and a line, you can fold a crease through one point perpendicular to the line, folding the line onto itself.
A5. Given two points and a line, you can fold a crease through one point that maps the other point onto the line.
A6. Given two points and two lines, you can fold a crease that simultaneously maps one point to one line and the other point to the other line.
Hatori's axiom:
A7. Given one point and two lines, you can fold a crease perpendicular to one line so that the point maps to the other line.

References

[1] E. D. Demaine and J. O'Rourke, Geometric Folding Algorithms: Linkages, Origami, Polyhedra, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007.

External Links

Plane Geometry (Wolfram MathWorld)
Cartesian Coordinates Exercise
Points and Lines on Folded Paper
Constructions with Paper Folding

Permanent Citation

Izidor Hafner
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​"Constructions by Reflecting in a Line"​
​http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/ConstructionsByReflectingInALine/​
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​Published: June 20, 2019