Polyhedra

Tetrahedrally diminished dodecahedron

In geometry, a tetrahedrally diminished dodecahedron (also tetrahedrally stellated icosahedron or propello tetrahedron) is a topologically self-dual polyhedron made of 16 vertices, 30 edges, and 16 faces (4 equilateral triangles and 12 identical quadrilaterals). A canonical form exists with two edge lengths at 0.849 : 1.057, assuming that the radius of the midsphere is 1. The kites remain isosceles. It has chiral tetrahedral symmetry, and so its geometry can be constructed from pyritohedral symmetry of the pseudoicosahedron with 4 faces stellated, or from the pyritohedron, with 4 vertices diminished. Within its tetrahedral symmetry, it has geometric varied proportions. By Dorman Luke dual construction, a unique geometric proportion can be defined. The kite faces have edges of length ratio ~ 1:0.633. Topologically, the triangles are always equilateral, while the quadrilaterals are irregular, although the two adjacent edges that meet at the vertices of a tetrahedron are equal. As a self-dual hexadecahedron, it is one of 302404 forms, 1476 with at least order 2 symmetry, and the only one with tetrahedral symmetry. As a diminished regular dodecahedron, with 4 vertices removed, the quadrilaterals faces are trapezoids. As a stellation of the regular icosahedron it is one of 32 stellations defined with tetrahedral symmetry. It has kite faces. In Conway polyhedron notation, it can represented as pT, applying George W. Hart's propeller operator to a regular tetrahedron. (Wikipedia).

Tetrahedrally diminished dodecahedron
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How to Construct a Dodecahedron

How the greeks constructed the Dodecahedron. Euclids Elements Book 13, Proposition 17. In geometry, a dodecahedron is any polyhedron with twelve flat faces. The most familiar dodecahedron is the regular dodecahedron with regular pentagons as faces, which is a Platonic solid. A regular dode

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Canonical structures inside the Platonic solids III | Universal Hyperbolic Geometry 51

The dodecahedron is surely one of the truly great mathematical objects---revered by the ancient Greeks, Kepler, and many mathematicians since. Its symmetries are particularly rich, and in this video we look at how to see the five-fold and six-fold symmetries of this object via internal str

From playlist Universal Hyperbolic Geometry

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How to construct a Tetrahedron

How the greeks constructed the first platonic solid: the regular tetrahedron. Source: Euclids Elements Book 13, Proposition 13. In geometry, a tetrahedron also known as a triangular pyramid, is a polyhedron composed of four triangular faces, six straight edges, and four vertex corners. Th

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Unique way to divide a tetrahedron in half

This is an interesting geometry volume problem using tetrahedrons. We use the volume of a tetrahedron and Cavalieri's principle in 3D.

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Regular polyhedra

This shows a 3d print of a mathematical sculpture I produced using shapeways.com. This model is available at http://shpws.me/q0PF.

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d4 truncated tetrahedron

See http://thedicelab.com/ for more details. These dice are available at http://www.mathartfun.com/shopsite_sc/store/html/DiceLabDice.html

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The geometry of the regular tetrahedron | Universal Hyperbolic Geometry 45 | NJ Wildberger

We look at the geometry of the regular tetrahedron, from the point of view of rational trigonometry. In particular we re-evaluate an important angle for chemists formed by the bonds in a methane molecule, and obtain an interesting rational spread instead. Video Content: 00:00 Introduction

From playlist Universal Hyperbolic Geometry

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The Four-Color Theorem and an Instanton Invariant for Spatial Graphs II - Tomasz Mrowka

Tomasz Mrowka Massachusetts Institute of Technology October 13, 2015 http://www.math.ias.edu/seminars/abstract?event=83214 Given a trivalent graph embedded in 3-space, we associate to it an instanton homology group, which is a finite-dimensional Z/2 vector space. The main result about t

From playlist Geometric Structures on 3-manifolds

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Rubenstein's cactus

Joint work with Rick Rubenstein. Available from Shapeways at http://shpws.me/r1iO

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The remarkable Platonic solids II: symmetry | Universal Hyperbolic Geometry 48 | NJ Wildberger

We look at the symmetries of the Platonic solids, starting here with rigid motions, which are essentially rotations about fixed axes. We use the normalization of angle whereby one full turn has the value one, and also connect the number of rigid motions with the number of directed edges.

From playlist Universal Hyperbolic Geometry

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Rhombofoam in Zome – Scott Vorthmann

Rhombofoam is a pattern that fills 3D space in all the ways that a golden rhombohedron does, while forming dodecahedral and 16-sided cells that have the topology of foam: three cells around each edge, and four around each vertex. The result is a foam model that has the symmetries of a quas

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Platonic and Archimedean solids

Platonic solids: http://shpws.me/qPNS Archimedean solids: http://shpws.me/qPNV

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Canonical structures inside the Platonic solids I | Universal Hyperbolic Geometry 49 | NJ Wildberger

Each of the Platonic solids contains somewhat surprising addition structures that shed light on the symmetries of the object. Here we look at the tetrahedron, and investigate a remarkable three-fold symmetry which is contained inside the obvious four-fold symmetry of the object. We connect

From playlist Universal Hyperbolic Geometry

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AlgTop9: Applications of Euler's formula and graphs

We use Euler's formula to show that there are at most 5 Platonic, or regular, solids. We discuss other types of polyhedra, including deltahedra (made of equilateral triangles) and Schafli's generalizations to higher dimensions. In particular in 4 dimensions there is the 120-cell, the 600-c

From playlist Algebraic Topology: a beginner's course - N J Wildberger

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To Build Viruses: A Markov Chain Monte Carlo Algorithm for Stimulating Viral Assembly Kinetics

For the latest information, please visit: http://www.wolfram.com Speaker: Nicholas Brunk Wolfram developers and colleagues discussed the latest in innovative technologies for cloud computing, interactive deployment, mobile devices, and more.

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Eleftherios Pavlides - Elastegrity Geometry of Motion - G4G13 Apr 2018

"The Chiral Icosahedral Hinge Elastegrity resulted from a Bauhaus paper folding exercise, that asks material and structure to dictate form. The key new object obtained in 1982 involved cutting slits into folded pieces of paper and weaving them into 8 irregular isosceles tetrahedra, attache

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Dv30 Asteroid

This shows a 3d print of a puzzle I produced using shapeways.com. This is joint work with Saul Schleimer. This is available at http://shpws.me/nKrU.

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How to find the volume of a pentagonal pyramid

👉 Learn how to find the volume and the surface area of a pyramid. A pyramid is a 3-dimensional object having a polygon as its base and triangular surfaces converging at a single point called its apex. A pyramid derives its name from the shape of its base, i.e. a pyramid with a triangular b

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Four Color Theorem via Gauge Theory and Three Manifold Topology - Tom Mrowka [2016]

slides for this talk: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1o-WQOW5Dwec5AmMNelfaJAu4KxOS4vdm/view?usp=sharing Name: Tom Mrowka Event: Workshop: Recent Developments in the Mathematical study of Gauge Theory Event URL: view webpage Title: An approach to the Four Color Theorem via Gauge Theory an

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Vertex configuration | Tetrahedral symmetry | Uniform honeycombs in hyperbolic space | Vertex figure | Pentagonal antiprism | Schlegel diagram | Pyritohedron | Dodecahedron | Trapezoid | Equilateral triangle | Quadrilateral | Tetrahedron | Convex polytope | Hexadecahedron | Regular icosahedron | Stellation | Regular dodecahedron | Kite (geometry) | Conway polyhedron notation | Geometry | Self-dual polyhedron | Triangle | Dual polyhedron | Midsphere