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  • Category: Geometry
  • Founded: Dec 10, 2001
  • Language: English
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I believe that the problem is because we can't tessellate regular tetrahedra nor regular pentagonal dodecahedra on this supposedly THREE-DIMENSIONAL realm as...
1 Mar 11, 2004
2:19 am

Alan Michelson
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I will be displaying some of my fluorescent polyhedra sculptures at a psytrance party this Saturday 3/13. I may have my Zometool kit and plenty of other...
1 Mar 10, 2004
7:37 am

Dan
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... Rotation of a 3-dimensional cube. ... Rotation of the 4-dimensional hypercube. You can get a better view at: http://www.netspace.net.au/~gregegan/ As I...
1 Mar 8, 2004
5:00 am

Alan Michelson
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The icosahedron has 5-fold symmetry while the Vector Equilibrium has 4-fold symmetry, but both also have 3-fold symmetry. And do you know why? Because we live...
1 Mar 8, 2004
4:50 am

Alan Michelson
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Zome is now offering parts by the pound, a great way to add to your kit or to start one. You get a lot more pieces than if you bought a kit. You don't get a...
1 Mar 6, 2004
10:46 pm

Dan
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I think if you project a 4-D Cross Polytope (Dual with hypercube) onto a space parallel to its opposite cells, you get a dou-tet cube. In fact, with some of...
1 Mar 3, 2004
2:27 am

Alan Michelson
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I think if you project a 4-D cube onto a space perpendicular to its diagonal you get a rhombic dodecahedron with internal edges and planes that are parallel to...
1 Mar 2, 2004
2:28 am

Alan Michelson
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Check it out. No chord factors. http://groups.msn.com/BuckminsterFuller/shoebox.msnw?action =ShowPhoto&PhotoID=187 or http://makeashorterlink.com/?E67522747 ...
1 Feb 3, 2004
12:19 am

Dick Fischbeck
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I've just uploaded many pictures of my polyhedra made from clear acrylic tubes and fluorescent nylon string. The folder is in the files section and is called ...
1 Jan 18, 2004
5:46 am

Dan
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This message is forwarded by the moderator of Polytopia. Michael Schneider is author of "A Beginner's Guide To Constructing The Universe: The Mathematical...
1 Jan 16, 2004
5:33 pm

dan duddy
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Hello 'Shamandhia&#39; Visited your links. Its an appallingly simple-minded attempt to sell a product using what is lamely presented as a scientific link between...
1 Jan 9, 2004
7:27 pm

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In a message dated 1/8/04 10:34:56 AM GMT Standard Time, fustie@... ... hips?? I feel you've rather missed my point! snip ... Not sure what you mean in...
2 Jan 9, 2004
5:28 pm

Shaman Dhia
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If that were actually the case the advertising industry would be dead. We share ideals of beauty based on proportion, and this is something we can explore ...
3 Jan 8, 2004
10:33 am

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Some members might find this study of M. C. Escher's etching The Print Gallery interesting. http://escherdroste.math.leidenuniv.nl/ Malcolm Schosha ... Do...
1 Jan 7, 2004
2:59 pm

Malcolm Schosha
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Greetings, New list member here. Is anyone on this list interested in discussing the esoteric implications that lie behind the beauty, symmetry and harmony of...
15 Jan 7, 2004
10:23 am

toadboyjoe
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Have you seen this collection? http://www1.ttcn.ne.jp/~a-nishi/index.html Dick...
2 Dec 26, 2003
4:53 pm

Dan
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i heard this one years ago and it was fun. then i heard it today again and i have been pondering it. i see how it works but i was hoping for a clearer...
1 Dec 25, 2003
10:33 am

Charlie
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Dear Members Pythagoras Foundation: http://www.stichting-pythagoras.nl/english/home.html will issue the first Newsletter this month. This will be a summary of...
1 Dec 19, 2003
9:49 am

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Hi everybody- It seems this list found me through our gracious moderator. My name is Andres and I live in San Francisco where I have been into geometry- ...
3 Dec 18, 2003
1:21 am

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"The lipid bilayer can be pictured as a two-dimensional fluid! " From: http://www.place.dawsoncollege.qc.ca/~rhanna/Membrane.htm ...
3 Dec 10, 2003
9:15 pm

Dick Fischbeck
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Anthropomorphic (body-part) maps are generated by configuring the virtual body of a god or goddess over the area to be mapped. The name of each part of that...
1 Nov 18, 2003
8:44 am

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Hello Dudes, There is a new group http://groups.msn.com/magicalmethods on msn website created for learn and spread Vedic Mathematics. There are a lot of ...
1 Nov 2, 2003
11:59 am

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In pursuit of Cosmic Geometry I found out that there will be a Grand Sextile (aka Harmonic Concordance) aspect between the Moon, Mars, the asteroid Chiron, the...
1 Oct 31, 2003
3:35 am

dan duddy
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If you have a curve that is a portion of circle, is it possible to figure out the radius of the would be circle? Practical application for me. I make wrought...
12 Oct 25, 2003
4:10 pm

J Vincent Beall
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Groovy. I remember the compass, angle bisecting stuff from school now, hehe. -Joe...
1 Oct 25, 2003
7:08 am

toadboyjoe
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Another possible expolanation for the hall of mirror effect besides the 4d hyperdodecahedron is if the universe was hyperbolic, then dodecahedrons could pack...
1 Oct 22, 2003
2:55 am

dan duddy
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I think I have proved this, and I am looking for a respectable journal to publish it. Does anyone on this list have any suggestions? I live in the UK and would...
4 Oct 21, 2003
5:18 am

Mike Dubbeld
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Hi Everbody, You can learn Vedic Mathematics (Learn to solve problems 10 times faster)free. Click Here to find this out . ... This group is developed...
1 Oct 8, 2003
6:27 am

gaurav sikka
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You'll be amazed at how much math content is in the simpsons (one of my favorite shows). www.simpsonsmath.com...
1 Oct 4, 2003
5:24 pm

Dan
polychoron
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Hello Group, I have inspired most from Vedic Mathematics and hopes that you will also take interest. Vedic Mathematics is becoming popular all over the world...
1 Oct 4, 2003
6:47 am

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