Message #3276

From: Roice Nelson <roice3@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [MC4D] Császár and Szilassi polyhedra
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2015 14:50:01 -0600

Looking at those, some differences I see are:

• The Császár has solid polygonal faces (topological disks), whereas a
  holyhedron must have faces with a hole cut out of them (topological annuli).

• Steffen’s polyhedron has a few extra vertices (9), which I bet helps
  allow its flexibility, and is genus-0 instead of genus-1. When following
  your link, I read it has been proved that it is the simplest flexible
  polyhedron with triangular faces.

So they appear different in some respects, though I wouldn’t be surprised
to find out there are connections! Also… a Visual Insight post
coincidentally showed up this week that mentions Steffen’s polyhedron:
blogs.ams.org/visualinsight/2015/12/15/kaleidocycle/

Cheers,
Roice

On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 4:53 PM, Melinda Green melinda@superliminal.com
[4D_Cubing] <4D_Cubing@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

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> 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.
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> -Melinda
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> 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
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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
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> Enjoy!
> Roice
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