Cyclogon

Okay kiddo, have you ever heard of a polygon? It’s a shape with straight lines and angles like a square, triangle or pentagon.

Now, a cyclogon is a special type of polygon that is created by moving one end point of a line while the other end point stays fixed. So imagine you have a pencil and you draw a straight line, like a train track. Now imagine you move one end of the pencil in a circle while the other end stays still. The shape you draw is a cyclogon!

Cyclogons are really cool because they can have lots of different shapes depending on how big or small the circle is that you draw with your pencil. Some cyclogons look like regular polygons with straight lines and angles, but others are much more twisty and intricate.

Scientists and mathematicians love studying cyclogons because they show up in all sorts of things, like crystals, bacterial cells, and even the patterns on butterfly wings. So next time you see a hexagon or an octagon, just remember that it’s just one type of polygon, and there are lots of other cool shapes out there like cyclogons that can teach us a lot about the world around us!