{"id":713,"date":"2012-07-04T13:21:24","date_gmt":"2012-07-04T20:21:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/?p=713"},"modified":"2012-07-04T13:31:52","modified_gmt":"2012-07-04T20:31:52","slug":"interesting-folding-toys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/interesting-folding-toys\/","title":{"rendered":"Interesting folding toys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/20120704-171130.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/20120704-171130.jpg\" alt=\"20120704-171130.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Our friends in S\u00e3o Paulo gave our daughter these cute wooden folding toys. They&#8217;ve got elastic running through the middle, so you can twist the pieces around and make different shapes. After playing with them for a while, I noticed that they have an interesting mathematical property: when folded into any flat shape, any two triangles that meet are always the same color, forming a grid of diamonds (or squares, depending on your point of view.) I can&#8217;t help wondering why this is. It has something to do with the repeating pattern of four colors, obviously, but what?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our friends in S\u00e3o Paulo gave our daughter these cute wooden folding toys. They&#8217;ve got elastic running through the middle, so you can twist the pieces around and make different shapes. After playing with them for a while, I noticed that they have an interesting mathematical property: when folded into any flat shape, any two &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/interesting-folding-toys\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Interesting folding toys<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,13],"tags":[105,104,49,106],"class_list":["post-713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun","category-math-art","tag-folding","tag-interesting","tag-math","tag-toys"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=713"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":715,"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713\/revisions\/715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}