Message #3578

From: Roice Nelson <roice3@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [MC4D] Does this form have a name?
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2016 21:28:54 -0600

Maybe the term you are looking for is "rhombic dodecahedron"?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhombic_dodecahedron

Yes, you can tile space with them to make a honeycomb.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhombic_dodecahedral_honeycomb

Roice

On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 11:00 AM, llamaonacid@gmail.com [4D_Cubing] <
4D_Cubing@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

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> I am talking about the blue form. I am having some trouble attaching files
> here so I am just going to add some links:
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> http://mathforum.org/mathimages/index.php/Image:Tesseract_slice1.gif
> http://mathforum.org/mathimages/index.php/Image:Tesseract_slice2.gif
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> If I am not mistaken when we cover space completely with those forms so
> that there is no gap in between we can think it as a 3D isometric paper.
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> I made a model and I sort off can see the 4 front cells of a hypercube but
> my model is not completely accurate so I am going to make a better one.
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> A 4c piece in MC4D can also make that form if you do Ctrl + right click on
> a 4c piece while having "Ctrl-Click Rotation: by Cubie".
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