He had folded the strip diagonally at three places and joined the ends so that it made a hexagon [see illustration below]. When he pinched two adjacent triangles together and pushed the opposite ...

Use a ruler and pen to join the dots – you now have a regular hexagon. Image caption ... to the dot – you now have a regular equilateral triangle.

A regular hexagon can be divided into six equilateral triangles, which are triangles with all sides and angles equal. To draw a regular hexagon, you need a compass, a ruler, and a pencil.

This tool allows you to create any geometric shape imaginable. Squares, triangles, rhombi, trapezoids and hexagons can be created, colored, enlarged, shrunk, rotated, reflected, sliced, and glued ...