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Re: icosahedron in soccer-ball style
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lugnet.build.sculpture
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Mon, 15 Sep 2003 13:57:46 GMT
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In lugnet.build.sculpture, Dave Lovelace wrote:
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In lugnet.announce, John Gerlach wrote:
Wow...I love it. What an enormous undertaking. What a great meditative
project. Makes me want to try a five-color icosidodecahedral net version. Or
maybe some other stellated forms. Your model proves anything is possible.
--Dave (jot and jab)
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Thanks! I was very surprised at the strength of Steve’s method of joining the
triangles. If you’re making something *really* large, you might have to brace
each triangle with a second set of hinges on the corners. Don’t know how well
it shows up in the pictures, here is how each side of the triangles is made:
top (outside) layer: 1x4 plate (black or white)
dark grey 1x4 hinges
1x1 ‘clip light’ / 1x1 plate / 1x1 ‘clip light’ / 1x1 plate
bottom (inside) layer: 1x4 plate (black)
(If you need a second set of hinges for strength, put them here.)
Just about anything based on equalateral triangles should be buildable:
dodecahedron, icosidodecahedron, etc... (Thanks, Google!)
And yes, it was a very “medatative” project. It very quickly got to the point
where I was building the triangles without looking at them. ;-)
JohnG, GMLTC
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| (...) Wow...I love it. What an enormous untaking. What a great meditative project. Makes me want to try a five-color icosidodecahedral net version. Or maybe some other stellated forms. Your model proves anything is possible. --Dave (jot and jab) (21 years ago, 15-Sep-03, to lugnet.build.sculpture, FTX)
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