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Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Take a look at this



Wow.  They play by different rules, they allow multiple face shapes and have special angle rules.

Anyway, you can stick a rectangle of variable dimensions in place of each seam, that creates
infinite variants.

I like #75, myself.  :)

-Lew

--- "Sean T. Stevenson" <ststev@uniserve.com> wrote:
> http://www.mathconsult.ch/showroom/unipoly/list.html
> 
> This is a list and diagram of all possible uniform polyhedra.  Looking at this, it looks like
> the truncated icosahedron (soccer ball), gives the best tradeoff between face size, useable
> volume and summed 
> edge lengths (welding needed) for a psub application.
> 
> -Sean
> 
> 
> 


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