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From: tuna@athena.mit.edu (Kirk 'UhOh' Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: Tesselating the sphere
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Date: 2 Mar 90 19:20:04 GMT
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In article <18000002@yoyodyne> koziol@yoyodyne.ncsa.uiuc.edu writes:
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    I have been playing around with various 3-D objects and have
    come upon, probably not for the first time, the fact that a
    dodecahedron might be the best polyhedron to perform simulations
    on. Dodecahedrons seem to lend themselves to this because they
    have six-sided faces which can be broken down into six
    equilateral triangles, which themselves can be broken down with
    the quad-trees approach.
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uh, if these are the same dodecahedrons i'm familiar with, i think you
might be mistaken. a dodecahedron has 12 _five-sided_ faces (as
opposed to the claimed _six-sided_ faces).

oh well. perhaps they are still useful.

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kirk johnson                                                    `Eat blue dogs
tuna@masala.lcs.mit.edu                                          and dig life.'