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daffydoug
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Man, I'm not sure if I even remembered the name correctly, but years and years ago, Doug Henning had put out a "Thing" (for want of a better word) that you folded and when it was finished, you could continually flex this folded contraption into several diferent mutations, and each time a different color would show...I believe there were as many as six or more different colors.

I am sorry to be so vague, but it has been a long time!!!!!

But, does ANYBODY have the faintest memory of what I'm talking about, and could perhaps direct me to instructions on how to fold it?

No, I'm not crazy.
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There is a commercially available set of these with Escher prints on them they're pretty cool. Here's a couple links you should find interesting...

http://mathematische-basteleien.de/kaleidocycles.htm

http://hexaflexagon.sourceforge.net/

I don't know anything about Doug Henning's deal, but they're really not some secret magic thing. Smile
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Thanks for the link!

Doug had one available that had "magical sayings" written on the spaces.
The difficult must become easy, the easy beautiful and the beautiful magical.