> Cool idea, you used colored mirrors, didn't you ?

Yes I did.

> Did you try with a rounded tetrahedron ? That would give smoother
> transition from one plane to another ...

I thought the same thing, though I couldn't get the right effect. Simply
smoothing off the corners wouldn't work because the 2 bits of the dodecahedron
that nearly meet up are actually reflections in completely different directions
(any 2 mirrors in the tetrahedron are at an angle sharper than 90 degrees), so
smoothing between them would get a reflection of lots of other things between
the two.

So instead I replaced each face of the tetrahedron with a sphere, but after much
adjusting I couldn't line up the edges exactly. However I did stumble across
this much more interesting pattern (which is now my desktop wallpaper!) :)

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Tek
http://www.evilsuperbrain.com

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