Im Beitrag <3CDE1D1F.52D06C80@pandora.be>, Herman Serras
<Her### [at] pandorabe> schrieb:
>
> That's a very nice illustration of a possible construction of the
> dodecahedron starting with a cube: on each face of the cube you put a
> pyramid and those pyramids are transformed into the "roofs" as already
> mentioned by Euclid to construct a dodecahedron. I also like the
> texture.
I forgot to add that I liked second best ( besides showing Euclid's
construction ) that it illustrates that you can transform the rhombic
dodecahedron into the regular dodecahedron by just tilting the planes a bit
around the edges of the inscribed cube ...
Mathematical greetings ;-)
Karl
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The two most common things in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
(H.Ellison)
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