Kaleidocycles: Web Resources

Kaleidocycles: References

Not much printed material is available on kaleidocycles (at least as far as I know). However, the book of Schattschneider and Walker is the main, most important reference on kaleidocycles.

Schattschneider and Walker, "M. C. Escher Kaleidocycles" ,
Ballantine Books, 1977.
Beautiful decorations for kaleidocycles based on Escher's tiled drawings

Glassner, "Net results", in: Andrew Glassner's Notebook,
IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, July 1997
An article on polyhedra and kaleidocycles in Glassner's column.

Kaleidocycles: Web resources

I hope sooner or later this is going to be a comprehensive list of web resources on kaleidocycles.

General/Introductory

Jürgen Köller: "Rings of tetrahedra"
A good introductory presentation of kaleidocycles.

Woody Duncan: "Kaleidocycles: Art that moves"
Pictures. MPEG movies showing the rotation.

Animations/Theory

Maurice Starck: "A ride through the polyhedra world"
Lots of Java-based animations!

Hubert Martineau: definition des kaléidocycles
Mathematical treatment of kaleidocycles. Animations.

Franz Zahaurek: "Der umstülpbare Würfel" (The invertible cube)
Animated GIF's of one of the most interesting kaleidocycle.

A Kaleidocycle as animated GIF: opengeom/animations.html

Art/Gallery

Susan Wood: "Kaleidocycle Pocket Toys"
380 Dollars a kaleidocycle ...

Krystyna and Wojtek Burczyk: Origami art
A kaleidocycle built just by folding one piece of paper.

Nets

www.mathnstuff.com: "Kaleidocycles by the Net Method"
If you are not so good at Origami, there are easier ways with cutting and glueing allowed.

G. Korthals Altes: "Paper Models of Polyhedra"
Provides nets for all kinds of polyhedra (including kaleidocycles). Print them and make your own paper models.

George Hart: "Encyclopedia of Polyhedra"
The best starting point for polyhedra in general. Enormous online reference. Many, many links. Polyhedra Art.