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#1 2006-03-02 06:31:25
- John E. Franklin
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dodecagon 3-d shape
A while ago I made a 12 sided figure out of paper, by
drawing touching pentagons, and cutting and taping it up.
(I did that because I wrote each of the 12 notes of the chromatic scale on each side to make a die (dice) for thinking about random musical intervals)
I thought today, if you make a dot at the center of the 12
pentagons, and connect them together to form edges of
another 3-D figure, you get the twenty sided one made out
of triangles. Then I noticed if you repeat that, and put dots
in the middle of the triangles, you revert back to the original
shape (dodecagon), but it is a reduced size dodecagon.
I wonder how much smaller it is?
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#2 2006-03-02 08:35:38
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Re: dodecagon 3-d shape
If you ever need to do another one: http://www.mathsisfun.com/geometry/dode … model.html
What you have discovered is called "Dual Polyhedra", one of those magical things about the world.
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#3 2006-03-02 09:16:56
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Re: dodecagon 3-d shape
Dual Polyhedra. I wondered what it would be called. I bet there aren't triple polyhedra! Maybe if you deal with unsymmetrical things like the continents on the Earth and draw a dot in middle of each and connect... I think that would just be a jumbled mess, I'm not sure. I suppose a 3-D computer program could do the process of finding the next shape and displaying it. Doesn't a golf ball have 236 indents? I thought that was a Trivial Pursuit question, but it was a long time ago, so I might have the # wrong.
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#4 2006-03-04 08:27:26
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Re: dodecagon 3-d shape
Something like this?
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#5 2006-03-04 08:38:25
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Re: dodecagon 3-d shape
Here's another(sorry, I'm not good at graphics stuff in Mathematica):
sorry and for the space but it's better to understand:
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#6 2006-03-04 13:55:31
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Re: dodecagon 3-d shape
That's what I was thinking, thanks for the pictures.
How come in the pictures, above the light blue surfaces,
there are only four lines, not five eminating from a center.
Probably just a small error. Really cool though!
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#7 2006-03-04 19:11:23
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Re: dodecagon 3-d shape
Ya, this is coz you can't rotate pictures in Mathematica.
For this I used external program: JavaView, that connects with Mathematica and translates the Mathematica's lanuage graphics to it's own. That's why sometimes there's some line, which is "eaten".
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