The mapping of a grid of regularly ruled squares onto a cone with no overlap or misalignment. Cone nets are possible for vertex angles of ,
, and
, where the dark edges in the upper diagrams above
are joined. Beautiful photographs of cone net models (lower diagrams above) are presented
in Steinhaus (1999). The transformation from a point
in the grid plane to a point
on the cone is given by
(1)
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(2)
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(3)
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where , 1/2, or 3/4 is the fraction of
a circle forming the base, and
(4)
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(5)
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(6)
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