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Part 10 – Mean Green Math

Part 10 – Mean Green Math

This magic trick is an optical illusion instead of a pure magic trick, but it definitely is a crowd-pleaser. This illusion is called Sugihara’s Impossible Cylinder:

This is actually a mathematical magic trick. As detailed by David Richeson in Math Horizons, there is a fair amount of math that goes into creating this unique shape. He also provided this interacted Geogebra applet as well as a printable pdf file for creating this illusion.

Part 10 – Mean Green Math

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I’m a Professor of Mathematics and a University Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of North Texas. For eight years, I was co-director of Teach North Texas, UNT’s program for preparing secondary teachers of mathematics and science.
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