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An amazingly symmetric icosahedron edge coloring

Posted on February 15, 2016 by Brent

In my last post I showed off the stellated icosahedron I made out of folded paper: I also claimed that it uses a very particular and elegant color scheme. When I set out to make it, I did some googling … Continue reading →

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Mystery curve, animated

Posted on June 5, 2015 by Brent

As a follow-on to my previous post, here’s an animation (17MB) showing how the “mystery curve” arises as a sum of circular motions: Recall that the equation for the curve is . The big blue circle corresponds to the term—it … Continue reading →

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