Goldberg polyhedra | Uniform polyhedra | Individual graphs | Archimedean solids | Truncated tilings
In geometry, the truncated icosahedron is an Archimedean solid, one of 13 convex isogonal nonprismatic solids whose 32 faces are two or more types of regular polygons. It is the only one of these shapes that does not contain triangles or squares. In general usage, the degree of truncation is assumed to be uniform unless specified. It has 12 regular pentagonal faces, 20 regular hexagonal faces, 60 vertices and 90 edges. It is the Goldberg polyhedron GPV(1,1) or {5+,3}1,1, containing pentagonal and hexagonal faces. This geometry is associated with footballs (soccer balls) typically patterned with white hexagons and black pentagons. Geodesic domes such as those whose architecture Buckminster Fuller pioneered are often based on this structure. It also corresponds to the geometry of the fullerene C60 ("buckyball") molecule. It is used in the cell-transitive hyperbolic space-filling tessellation, the bitruncated order-5 dodecahedral honeycomb. (Wikipedia).
How to Construct an Icosahedron
How the greeks constructed the icosahedron. Source: Euclids Elements Book 13, Proposition 16. In geometry, a regular icosahedron is a convex polyhedron with 20 faces, 30 edges and 12 vertices. It is one of the five Platonic solids, and the one with the most faces. https://www.etsy.com/lis
From playlist Platonic Solids
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
From playlist Platonic Solids
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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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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Joint work with Rick Rubenstein. Available from Shapeways at http://shpws.me/r1iO
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Geodesic domes: http://shpws.me/qrM2 Geodesic spheres: http://shpws.me/qrM3
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We present a solution to question A1 from the 2013 William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition. http://www.michael-penn.net http://www.randolphcollege.edu/mathematics/
From playlist Putnam Exam Solutions: A1/B1
Platonic and Archimedean solids
Platonic solids: http://shpws.me/qPNS Archimedean solids: http://shpws.me/qPNV
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32 and Truncated Icosahedron - Numberphile
The 32-sided truncated icosahedron forms the basis of many footballs (soccer balls!). It's also a big deal in chemistry. More links & stuff in full description below ↓↓↓ sixtysymbols video on footballs: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55M1cq62m2c periodicvideos video on buckyballs: http://
From playlist Football (soccer) on Numberphile
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
AlgTop8: Polyhedra and Euler's formula
We investigate the five Platonic solids: tetrahedron, cube, octohedron, icosahedron and dodecahedron. Euler's formula relates the number of vertices, edges and faces. We give a proof using a triangulation argument and the flow down a sphere. This is the eighth lecture in this beginner's
From playlist Algebraic Topology: a beginner's course - N J Wildberger
Visual Group Theory, Lecture 2.3: Symmetric and alternating groups
Visual Group Theory, Lecture 2.3: Symmetric and alternating groups In this lecture, we introduce the last two of our "5 families" of groups: (4) symmetric groups and (5) alternating groups. The symmetric group S_n is the group of all n! permutations of {1,...,n}. We see several different
From playlist Visual Group Theory
Inkscape Logo Design: How to Make a Circle Logo Template | Curve Text | Create Pattern Fill
Inkscape step-by-step beginner, intermediate tutorial on how to create circle logo template. Follow along in this screen capture guide showing you how to curve text, wrap text around the bottom of a circle, create your own custom pattern fill and use Inkscape's render feature to generate a
From playlist Logo Design Tutorials
Try at http://h3.hypernom.com and http://h2xe.hypernom.com. Controls: wasd rotates, arrow keys move, numbers change decoration, c changes colours. Also works on smartphones - touch the screen to move forwards. If you have a Vive, you may be able to get this to work on Firefox - press v th
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AlgTop16: Rational curvature of polytopes and the Euler number
We show that the total curvature of a polyhedron is equal to its Euler number. This only works with the rational formulation of curvature, using an analog of the turn angle suitable for the 2 dimensional sphere. This important modification to the theory is original with this lecture series
From playlist Algebraic Topology: a beginner's course - N J Wildberger
Marjorie Wikler Senechal - Unwrapping a Gem - CoM Apr 2021
If the celebrated Scottish zoologist D’Arcy W. Thompson (1860 – 1948) could have met the near-legendary German astronomer Johannes Kepler (1571 – 1630), what would they talk about? Snowflakes, maybe? It is true that both men wrote about their hexagonal shapes. But they both wrote about Arc
From playlist Celebration of Mind 2021
Delta-Star is a polyhedral object which I invented in 1996. The type of Delta-Star corresponds to Deltahedrons. It expands and shrinks. Especially highly symmetric tetrahedron,octahedron,icosahedron types and hexahedron,decahedron types can transform smoothly.
From playlist Handmade geometric toys
Instruction to download http://singingbanana.com/popupdodecahedron.pdf More information about the dodecahedron that I would have like to have gone into in this video http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=-lqpSpje42o Dodecahedron at wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodecahedron Plato
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A Challenging Geometric Construction
Mathematics is patterns and logic, imagination and rigor. It is a way of seeing and a way of thinking. Math Mornings is a series of public lectures aimed at bringing the joy and variety of mathematics to students and their families. Speakers from Yale and elsewhere will talk about aspects
From playlist Math Mornings at Yale