I was inspired by Andy Cocker's "Max Trace Magic", so I made this. What you are
looking at is -not- a dodecahedron, even though it looks a lot like one. The
camera is inside a reflective tetrahedron, and there are 4 cylinders protruding
from the center of each face of the tetrahedron and meeting in the middle. The
small image shows you the scene from a different point of view with the
reflections turned off.

The illusion of a dodecahedron is caused by the fact that the angles between
faces in a tetrahedron is nearly the same as the angle between points on a
dodecahedron, so the reflections form an image that nearly looks like a
dodecahedron.

-- 
Tek
http://www.evilsuperbrain.com

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