Conway's Billiard Ball Loop
Conway's Billiard Ball Loop
A billiard path is a polygon with vertices on the faces of a polyhedron such that if two segments meet at a vertex on a face , the plane through them is perpendicular to and the angle they form is bisected by the normal to at . A billiard ball loop is a closed billiard path.
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This Demonstration shows a loop of a billiard ball in a regular tetrahedron discovered by J. H. Conway. Each vertex is a vertex of a triangle on a face with side length one-tenth the length of an edge of the tetrahedron. There are three such loops.