Woowww, that does it, nice view !

Tek wrote:
>>Cool idea, you used colored mirrors, didn't you ?
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> Yes I did.
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>>Did you try with a rounded tetrahedron ? That would give smoother
>>transition from one plane to another ...
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> 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.
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> 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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