Message #3275

From: Melinda Green <melinda@superliminal.com>
Subject: Re: [MC4D] Császár and Szilassi polyhedra
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2015 14:53:52 -0800

Interesting! Is it at all related to the holyhedron
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holyhedron>or the flexible Steffen model
<http://mathworld.wolfram.com/FlexiblePolyhedron.html>? It looks a lot
like the Steffen model which also happens to contains 14 triangular faces.

-Melinda

On 12/12/2015 3:14 PM, Roice Nelson roice3@gmail.com [4D_Cubing] wrote:
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> Yesterday I learned about the Császár polyhedron
> <http://www.futilitycloset.com/2015/12/10/the-csaszar-polyhedron> on
> Google+.
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> plus.google.com/u/0/+DavidJoyner/posts/HEBGDgqLgdG
> <http://plus.google.com/u/0/+DavidJoyner/posts/HEBGDgqLgdG>
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> It is the only known polyhedron besides the tetrahedron that has no
> diagonals - all 7 vertices connect to every other. With 21 edges and
> 14 faces, its genus is 1. You can think of it as the complete graph
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complete_graph> K_7 embedded on the
> torus. It also has a dual, the Szilassi polyhedron
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Szilassi_polyhedron>. Both relate to
> the Heawood graph
> <http://blogs.ams.org/visualinsight/2015/08/01/heawood-graph/>.
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> Turns out I already had the latter configured in MagicTile (the {6,3}
> 7-Color), but I didn’t have the former, so I just added it. Here are
> some pictures of the tilings.
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> https://goo.gl/photos/K1vYapeTqqYteGx58
> https://goo.gl/photos/kQMxQCtbCqsL2Wj88
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> Both are in the Euclidean/Torus section of MagicTile.
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> www.gravitation3d.com/magictile <http://www.gravitation3d.com/magictile>
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> Enjoy!
> Roice
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