Outer Billiards on Regular Polygons
Outer Billiards on Regular Polygons
Move the locator to choose a point outside a polygon . The outer billiards map searches clockwise for the nearest vertex of . Let be the reflection of in (i.e. ), a discrete form of orbital dynamics. Iterate this process to get the orbit of .
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