Embeddings of Minimally Rigid Graphs
Ileana Streinu
These Cinderella animations and applets illustrate some of the
constructions from the paper:
On the Number of Embeddings of Minimally Rigid Graphs
by Ciprian Borcea and
Ileana Streinu.
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Change the lengths of the bars using the sliders at the top of the
images, to see how the coupler curves change shapes.
- An
animation
of a 4-bar mechanism with 6 crossings with a
circle. The 6 crossings give 6 embeddings of the
Desargues framework. The previous drawings should help you
visualize all the 24 which are possible.
Ileana Streinu