Projective geometry is a funny thing. Despite its most pure form having no concept of angle or distance (i.e. no concept of coordinates), it is most often taught using a Euclidean metric with yet another coordinate bolted on top. let me know if you get baffled.
Also, be warned - projective geometry ...
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- Sun Aug 23, 2015 1:49 pm
- Forum: Stella Forum
- Topic: How does Stella4D determine the dual?
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- Sun Aug 23, 2015 8:32 am
- Forum: Stella Forum
- Topic: How does Stella4D determine the dual?
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And, as noted in last reply, I'm curious to see what might come from using it as the surface of reciprocation.
Polar reciprocation is a construction in pure projective geometry. This geometry has no idea of metric, i.e. of distance or angle. To a projective geometer a sphere, ellipsoid, hyperbolic ...
Polar reciprocation is a construction in pure projective geometry. This geometry has no idea of metric, i.e. of distance or angle. To a projective geometer a sphere, ellipsoid, hyperbolic ...
- Fri Aug 21, 2015 9:32 am
- Forum: Stella Feature Requests
- Topic: Plane tilings
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Plane tilings
Would it be possible for Stella to explore plane tilings as well as polyhedra?
There seem to be two approaches to tiling:
Symmetries (e.g. kaleidoscopes) in the plane can generate tilings, much as spherical ones generate polyhedra. There are even some "dense" or overlapping tilings analogous to ...
There seem to be two approaches to tiling:
Symmetries (e.g. kaleidoscopes) in the plane can generate tilings, much as spherical ones generate polyhedra. There are even some "dense" or overlapping tilings analogous to ...
- Fri Aug 21, 2015 8:48 am
- Forum: Stella Forum
- Topic: How does Stella4D determine the dual?
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- Thu Aug 13, 2015 7:16 pm
- Forum: Polyhedra
- Topic: Archimedean polyhedra with missing faces
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- Thu Jul 23, 2015 8:14 pm
- Forum: Stella Feature Requests
- Topic: Truncation of Polyhedra
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- Mon Jul 06, 2015 7:20 pm
- Forum: Stella Forum
- Topic: N-gonal pyramids
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- Thu Nov 06, 2014 1:50 pm
- Forum: Stella Forum
- Topic: Equilateral convex polyhedra (new class after 400 years?)
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Certainly some polyhedra can't be given equal edge lengths unless they lose their convexity, like many of the duals of the Archimedean solids.
Yes of course, all those funny groupings of triangles round a vertex for a start.
Something like a heptagonal pyramid requires its equilateral morph to be ...
Yes of course, all those funny groupings of triangles round a vertex for a start.
Something like a heptagonal pyramid requires its equilateral morph to be ...
- Tue Nov 04, 2014 8:42 pm
- Forum: Stella Forum
- Topic: Equilateral convex polyhedra (new class after 400 years?)
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- Sun Nov 02, 2014 3:32 pm
- Forum: Stella Forum
- Topic: Equilateral convex polyhedra (new class after 400 years?)
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- Sat Nov 01, 2014 6:48 pm
- Forum: Stella Forum
- Topic: Equilateral convex polyhedra (new class after 400 years?)
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I also need a way to ... maybe even to generate Goldbergs with equal edge lengths as per the paper.
I think that will require the solution of multiple simultaneous equations, there are no shortcuts for such arbitrary metric equalities in projective reciprocation. Can one even assume that all the ...
I think that will require the solution of multiple simultaneous equations, there are no shortcuts for such arbitrary metric equalities in projective reciprocation. Can one even assume that all the ...
- Sat Nov 01, 2014 6:37 pm
- Forum: Stella Forum
- Topic: Equilateral convex polyhedra (new class after 400 years?)
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Well Goldberg was interested in cages, and probably not interested in flat faces, because he was looking at molecular arrangements. I think these guys just realised, while doing the same thing, that they could expand this to say something interesting about polyhedra, as an aside to their molecular ...
- Thu Oct 30, 2014 8:40 pm
- Forum: Stella Forum
- Topic: Equilateral convex polyhedra (new class after 400 years?)
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Hi Robert,
Yes, I think your remarks about the other types of equilateral polyhedron are spot on.
I don't think I have yet found two equivalent definitions of a Goldberg polyhedron. One would have to go back and read Goldberg's original papers and see how rigorous he was - probably no more so than ...
Yes, I think your remarks about the other types of equilateral polyhedron are spot on.
I don't think I have yet found two equivalent definitions of a Goldberg polyhedron. One would have to go back and read Goldberg's original papers and see how rigorous he was - probably no more so than ...
- Sat Oct 05, 2013 7:08 pm
- Forum: Polyhedra
- Topic: Groupe Facebook
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- Tue Aug 27, 2013 1:56 pm
- Forum: Stella Forum
- Topic: Can Anybody Help Me Make A Moravian Star Please?
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