An Optical Illusion of Volume Promoted by the Transformation of a Paper Model from a Square Prism to a Tetrahedron

• Main Authors: Rosa Elena Arroyo-Carmona (Author), Jaime Vázquez-Bravo (Author), Marco A. Mora-Ramírez (Author), Gerardo Paredes-Juárez (Author), Aaron Pérez-Benitez (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas, 2024-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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During the recycling of a cardboard box in the shape of a right prism with a square base to build a tetrahedron, there was the curious coincidence that the height of the first was equal to the inclined height of the second. After some bending and cutting on the prism, its dynamic conversion to the t...