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"Shay" <sah### [at] simcoparts com> wrote in message
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> Just a polyhedron(1), but I tricked it out a bit with rounded edges and
> a two-tone "paint" job with pinstriping.
nice.
> (1)I confess that don't know exactly what is and what is not a
> polyhedron, so y'all can skip lawyering me about my use of that word.
If you make a polyhedron, isn't that as good as defining one.
There is an alternate defintion you might find interesting (and perhaps
a challenge to render):
[OED with etymology for sense b]
b. spec. A lens having many facets, multiplying the image of an object;
a multiplying-glass.
1727-41 Chambers Cycl. s.v.,
The eye, through a polyhedron, sees the object repeated as many times
as there are sides.
1764 Reid Inquiry vi. xii. (1801) 272
Instances wherein the same object may appear double, triple, or quadruple
to one eye, without the help of a polyhedron or multiplying glass.
pan
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