Kite
Kite
A kite is a planar convex quadrilateral consisting of two adjacent sides of length a and the other two sides of length b. The rhombus is a special case of the kite, and the lozenge is a special case of the rhombus.
The area of a kite is given by
| A=1/2pq, |
(1)
|
where
p = sqrt(a^2-h^2)+sqrt(b^2-h^2)
(2)
q = 2h
(3)
are the lengths of the polygon diagonals (which are perpendicular).
The 120-90-60-90 kite with edge ratios sqrt(3):1 is the basis for the polyomino-like objects known as polykites.
KitePenroseTile
"Kite" is also the name given to the Penrose tile illustrated above.
See also
Dart, Kite Graph, Krackhardt Kite, Lozenge, Parallelogram, Penrose Tiles, Polykite, Quadrilateral, RhombusExplore with Wolfram|Alpha
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References
Harris, J. W. and Stocker, H. "Kite." §3.6.9 in Handbook of Mathematics and Computational Science. New York: Springer-Verlag, p. 86, 1998.Referenced on Wolfram|Alpha
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Weisstein, Eric W. "Kite." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/Kite.html