... "These six elementary colors are frequently chosen to paint educational toys, or for designs that try to appeal from their simplicity (such as the Olympic...
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danradin
Oct 2, 2010 12:56 am
Come visit my new Platonic Solids facebook page at: http://www.facebook.com/pages/PlatonicSolids/158392277523641...
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Alan Michelson
a.michelson
Oct 16, 2010 11:40 pm
Tetraxis magnetic geometry puzzle This uses the same four colors based on the Natural Color System. Thanks to Jane of synergeo for this one! This one might be...
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Alan M
a.michelson
Oct 17, 2010 12:17 am
... It might also be based on the rhombic dodecahedron. Those 4-color pyramidal dents might be the dents of the rhombic dodecahedron rather than of the regular...
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Adrian Rossiter
adrianrossiter
Oct 20, 2010 10:21 am
Hi Alan ... There is a wooden version of the puzzle here http://www.johnrausch.com/PuzzleWorld/puz/augmented_second_stellation.htm (And a similar icosahedral...
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Jane
jjkostick
Oct 20, 2010 12:40 pm
It's based on the rhombic dodecahedron. I will soon post on www.tetraxis.com a link to a youtube video called "Tetraxis Geometry". The rhombic dodecahedron...
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Adrian Rossiter
adrianrossiter
Oct 20, 2010 2:03 pm
Hi Jane ... Nice models and puzzles. There are also some models and discussion of the arrangement in Alan Holden's Shapes, Space and Symmetry from 1971 (pages ...
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Alan M
a.michelson
Oct 21, 2010 1:15 am
... rather ... of ... cuboctahedron ... http://www.johnrausch.com/PuzzleWorld/puz/augmented_second_stellation.ht\ m ...
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jennifer kurtz
jenniyoungkurtz
Oct 21, 2010 1:50 am
These are amazing....thanks for sharing. Â Peace~ Jenn ... From: Alan M <amichelson2002@...> Subject: [Polytopia] Re: Tetraxis magnetic geometry puzzle ...
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Jane
jjkostick
Oct 21, 2010 9:34 am
The video illustrating the geometry of the Tetraxis is now up on YouTube...here's the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnkyOTtBij8 The video was created by...
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Adrian Rossiter
adrianrossiter
Oct 21, 2010 12:20 pm
Hi Jane ... I like the video, it explains how everything fits together very well. There is a point in the video where the rhombic dodecahedra are shown in...
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roopak vaidya
roopak.vaidya
Oct 21, 2010 11:05 pm
Brilliant stuff! ________________________________ From: Adrian Rossiter <adrian_r@...> To: Polytopia@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thu, 21 October, 2010...
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Alan M
a.michelson
Oct 22, 2010 1:19 am
You're just treating each rhombic dodecahedron as if it were a jitterbugging square:...
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Alan M
a.michelson
Oct 22, 2010 3:22 am
... <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnkyOTtBij8> Take a rhombic dodecahedron. Add more rhombic dodecahedra on the 4-fold vertices so that they are along the...
Hello, I have made a few short clips on the nature of three spheres interacting which you may find of use (for illustrative purposes) or interesting. ...
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cdsgraphics1952
Jan 21, 2011 4:01 am
greetings fellow Polytopians I cant seem to find it or remember what it was called, but someone here posted a table of all the polyhedron formulas such as the...
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BruceRawles
bruce1618r
Jan 21, 2011 2:53 pm
... Hi all: Some pertinent info for the Platonic and Archimedean Solids here: http://www.geometrycode.com/sg/polyhedra.shtml (with links to all the fold-up...
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cdsgraphics1952
Jan 21, 2011 3:19 pm
thanks for that resource. I've Bookmarked it for examination later. The one previously posted (here?)had the actual formula expressions that caluulate the...
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cdsgraphics1952
Jan 21, 2011 3:27 pm
actually I found it here just now in Files > Polyhedra_Dimensions as separate files... I thought I was looking for a Table that had all of them in one But this...
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Vickie Gammill
vickiegammill
Feb 12, 2011 6:33 am
http://troupesdad.com/rml3.html...
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Miguel
detonacciones
Feb 12, 2011 10:03 am
Polytopia Group Participants, A new book has just been released by Foundation Encyclopedia Dialectica [F.E.D.], entitled -- A Dialectical "Theory of...
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foresthrt
Apr 5, 2011 1:26 pm
I am curating an art exhibit in Berkeley Springs WV Nov-Dec. 2011 (opening 11-11-11) and am in search of diverse artwork that resonates with the rare alignment...
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Miguel
detonacciones
Apr 10, 2011 8:40 pm
Polytopia Group Participants, FYI: The first of the promised "Postlude Letters" -- an excerpt from the new book on the F.E.D. "Dialectical Meta-Numbers" --...
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Miguel
detonacciones
May 11, 2011 1:33 am
Polytopia Group Participants, The Equitist Advocacy group has just published -- circa the May 5th, 2011 anniversary of the birth of Karl Marx [this timing is...
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Allenlubow
phi16
May 11, 2011 10:45 pm
This should not be on this site. It is off topic. Please remove. Allen Lubow ... This should not be on this site. It is off topic. Please remove. Allen Lubow...
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Alan M
a.michelson
Sep 16, 2011 6:59 pm
... you mean ... (0,0,±1) ? ... …and you can notice that in http://cubicao.com/theory/tetrahedron.html <http://cubicao.com/theory/tetrahedron.html> ... ...
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Alan M
a.michelson
Oct 22, 2011 10:24 pm
Did you know that the umbrellas in The Amazing Race are all red-yellow-green-blue? * http://www.cbs.com/shows/amazing_race/video/2154922045/the-amazing-race-\ ...
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Polytopia@yahoogroups...
Nov 1, 2011 11:07 pm
Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the Polytopia group. File : /TDF.zip ...
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Russ Kinter
pyth7
Nov 6, 2011 8:58 pm
Hello All, For the last few months I have been making a web page that describes how the taijitu yin-yang symbol can be found in the icosahedron and...
