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  Re: Stellated Icosahedra (89kbbu)  
From: Gail Shaw
Date: 23 Feb 2000 02:13:05
Message: <38b38881@news.povray.org>
David Fontaine wrote in message <38B1ACA5.8F9D8F79@faricy.net>...
>Take the plane of one face of an icosahedron and intersect it with all
>the other planes. Use the resulting lines to divide this plane into 67
>sectors. "Fill in" certain combinations of these sectors and use them as
>one face on the icosahedron, then copy it and rotate it into place for
>the other faces. (There are 59 such combinations, this is only a select
>few.)

OK, Simplify that please <grin>

>The trig should only take you all day, but then again, you enjoyed it,
>you're a flaming math nerd, aren't you? :-)


i used to be, but maths skills have gone unused since Physics 3 (two years
ago) and I'm rusty.


Any chance of some code?

Gail
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