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Published on 22 Jul 2012
As the seven moving cylinders move around the fixed cylinder, their radii change but their heights change in such a way that the volume of each cylinder remains fixed. The circular bases of the cylinders form a Steiner chain... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steiner_... This configuration illustrates a type of mathematical theorem known as a porism.