Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!aplcen!samsung!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!apple!portal!cup.portal.com!truett From: truett@cup.portal.com (Truett Lee Smith) Newsgroups: comp.graphics Subject: Re: Polyhedra inscribed in unit sphere... Message-ID: <35241@cup.portal.com> Date: 25 Oct 90 05:23:08 GMT References: Organization: The Portal System (TM) Lines: 9 There was an article by Blinn in the IEEE Graphics journal during about a year ago which showed how to derive the Platonic solids by hand using a few simple tricks. It's really neat. The dodecagon, as I remember, was formed by the vertices of three golden rectangles intersecting at the origin. Truett Smith Sunnyvale, CA E-mail: truett@cup.portal.com OR truett@tdd.sj.nec.com