Mad About Mirrors

Mad About Mirrors is a five-minute video that was produced at The Geometry Center as part of a middle- and high-school mathematics curriculum.

The video introduces some concepts of relfection and reflective symmetry that are taught as part of the curriculum.

The curriculum aims to explain the concepts behind the KaleidoTile program, written by Jeff Weeks.

This welcome page offers links to the final report , a gallery of 640x 480 images indexed by 160 x 120 images, the TeX code for the video's script, and the curriculum associated with the video, and an MPEG gallery featuring short segments of the video itself.

The video's script, in PostScript format. This may take a few moments to load.

The final report, in PostScript format. This may take a few moments to load.

Still photos from the video. This page has 160 by 120 gifs that expand to 640 by 480 when selected.

A gallery of MPEGs. This page has 160 by 120 frames, which are links to MPEGs of the same size. An eight-bit display is required.

Options for downloading Kaleidotile