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The area of a kite is found in the same way as a rhombus, that is by splitting it into two triangles.
Each "einstein" tile has eight kite shapes inside of it. David Smith, Joseph Samuel Myers, Craig S. Kaplan and Chaim Goodman-Strauss (CC BY 4.0) The “einstein” tile is made up of eight kites ...
the hat is a polykite — a bunch of smaller kite shapes stuck together. That’s a type of shape that hadn’t been studied closely in the search for einsteins, says Chaim Goodman-Strauss of the ...
His master’s degree project at the University of Hawaii was on kite aerodynamics. "I used to be a math teacher, so I used to integrate making the kite and flying the kite, it’s what they call ...