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Kite

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.


See also

Kite Graph, Krackhardt Kite, Lozenge, Parallelogram, Penrose Tiles, Polykite, Quadrilateral, Rhombus

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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.

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Weisstein, Eric W. "Kite." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Web Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/Kite.html

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