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  2. Tamatebako (origami) - Wikipedia

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    A pinwheel fold. Valley-fold a square into thirds between both pairs of edges, creating nine sub-squares. Cut a diagonal X across the entire center square, pinwheel-fold the outer edges, and fold the protruding pinwheel flaps inward, interleaving them to produce a multilayered square with the top woven together. Fold outward the triangular ...

  3. Pinwheel (toy) - Wikipedia

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    The design for example is typical of a japanese origami folding technique for a pinwheel. [citation needed] During the nineteenth century in the United States, any wind-driven toy held aloft by a running child was characterized as a whirligig, including pinwheels. Pinwheels provided many children with numerous minutes of enjoyment and amusement ...

  4. Box-drawing characters - Wikipedia

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    Box-drawing characters, also known as line-drawing characters, are a form of semigraphics widely used in text user interfaces to draw various geometric frames and boxes. These characters are characterized by being designed to be connected horizontally and/or vertically with adjacent characters, which requires proper alignment.

  5. Dots and boxes - Wikipedia

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    Dots and boxes is a pencil-and-paper game for two players (sometimes more). It was first published in the 19th century by French mathematician Édouard Lucas , who called it la pipopipette . [ 1 ] It has gone by many other names, [ 2 ] including dots and dashes , game of dots , [ 3 ] dot to dot grid , [ 4 ] boxes , [ 5 ] and pigs in a pen .

  6. Engineering drawing abbreviations and symbols - Wikipedia

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    Thus they are instead given as basic dimensions. In modern practice basic dimensions have a rectangular box around them, or sometimes the word "BASIC". BC or B.C. bolt circle: BCD or B.C.D. bolt circle diameter: BHC bolt hole circle Same definition as the bolt circle diameter BHCS: button head cap screw: Like an SHCS but with a button head. BHN

  7. Pinwheel tiling - Wikipedia

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    Federation Square's sandstone façade. Federation Square, a building complex in Melbourne, Australia, features the pinwheel tiling.In the project, the tiling pattern is used to create the structural sub-framing for the facades, allowing for the facades to be fabricated off-site, in a factory and later erected to form the facades.

  8. Geometric Shapes (Unicode block) - Wikipedia

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    Geometric Shapes; Range: U+25A0..U+25FF (96 code points) Plane: BMP: Scripts: Common: Symbol sets: Control code graphics Geometric shapes: Assigned: 96 code points

  9. Wallpaper group - Wikipedia

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    A wallpaper group (or plane symmetry group or plane crystallographic group) is a mathematical classification of a two-dimensional repetitive pattern, based on the symmetries in the pattern. Such patterns occur frequently in architecture and decorative art , especially in textiles , tiles , and wallpaper .