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From: v134kkut@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (David W Tinklepaugh)
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Subject: Re: Polyhedra inscribed in unit sphere...
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Date: 25 Oct 90 15:18:19 GMT
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In article <gb9_r1m00WB4MKFkhQ@andrew.cmu.edu>, bk0y+@andrew.cmu.edu (Brian Christopher Kircher) writes...
>Does anyone out there have data-sets (i.e. vertex, edge lists) for a
>dodecahedron and a icosahedron inscribed in the unit sphere?  It looks
>like some wickedly evil math to compute the vertices and I would
>rather not work it out if it could be avoided.

I would just like to point out that this question is IDENTICAL to:

    How do you tesselate a sphere

    How to find measurements to build a geodesic dome

    How to represent a ball as a group of similar polygons other than the
    globe-longitude-latitude method.

oh, one answer is in the "read this before you post" post listed under
#15, tesselation.

(I tried to investigate this myself once and found my info in the architecture
library of all places.  I didn't even know who Buckmeister Fuller was :)  )

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