Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Dodecahedron

This morning before heading off to work I tried putting together a copper wire dodecahedron (12 pentagonal sides) one of the the platonic solids.


It is pretty rough with the angles off, like it got squashed, but not too bad for eyeballing 12 sides together.

One curious thing about dodecahedron's is that small bronze ones with holes in the center of the faces have been found in Roman sites but there is no record as to what they were for.

The triangle, square and pentagon can curve back on themselves to form these 3D shapes.  The next shape up, the hexagon won't fold back in on itself but forms a flat sheet when (regular) hexagons are placed next to each other.  Here is a photo of all three wire creations thus far. 


I am thinking of hanging them by string from the ceiling.

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