Wittenbauer’s Parallelogram

Futility Closet

12/05/2025 6:12PM

Episode Synopsis "Wittenbauer’s Parallelogram"

Draw an arbitrary quadrilateral and divide each of its sides into three equal parts. Draw a line through adjacent points of trisection on either side of each vertex and you’ll have a parallelogram. Discovered by Austrian engineer Ferdinand Wittenbauer.

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