Kempe's Multiplicator

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This Demonstration gives a model of Kempe's angle multiplicator. The angle

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. The multiplicator is one of Kempe's tools; the other two are the adder and the translator.

E. D. Demaine and J. O'Rourke, Geometric Folding Algorithms: Linkages, Origami, Polyhedra, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007 p. 33.

Izidor Hafner, Eric D. Demaine, Joseph O'Rourke