Spherical Geometry Explorer

Published by patrick honner on

This is a simple and powerful tool for exploring some basic ideas of spherical geometry.

http://www.math.psu.edu/dlittle/java/geometry/spherical/toolbox.html

In addition to investigating points, lines, and line segments on the surface of sphere, you can construct triangles, antipodes, and even circles in spherical geometry!

A picture may be worth a thousand words, but a good interactive spherical geometry applet is worth a thousand well-drawn diagrams!


patrick honner

Math teacher in Brooklyn, New York

2 Comments

John Golden (@mathhombre) · March 17, 2012 at 10:27 am

Your goo.gl link brings me back to this page. By any chance did you mean http://merganser.math.gvsu.edu/easel/ from my colleagues David and Will?

MrHonner · March 17, 2012 at 10:50 am

Thanks for the proof-reading, John! This is what I linked to:

http://www.math.psu.edu/dlittle/java/geometry/spherical/toolbox.html

But I’m definitely going to look into the spherical drawing program you’ve shared!

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