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From: schraudo@beowulf.ucsd.edu (Nici Schraudolph)
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Subject: Re: Spherical CA
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Date: 6 Oct 90 00:42:16 GMT
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Another famous family of mixed polyhedra are the Fuller spheres, perhaps
better known in various cut-off shapes as fuller domes.  A soccer ball is
an example of the simplest Fuller sphere, made of 12 regular pentagons and,
uh, 20 regular hexagons.  Larger shapes can be created by adding more
hexagons into the mix, at the expense of roundness: larger Fuller spheres
look more and more like dodecahedra (with the pentagons as vertices) than
spheres.

Any volunteers for working out an adressing scheme for these beasts? :-)
-- 
Nicol N. Schraudolph, C-014                      "Big Science, hallelujah.
University of California, San Diego               Big Science, yodellayheehoo."
La Jolla, CA 92093-0114                                     - Laurie Anderson.
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