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The Louis and Jeanette Brooks Engin
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Copyright 2001 by Jean Le Mée
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Dodecahedron ......................
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Acknowledgements Special thanks are
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viii The realization of the project
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Introduction: 1 Ad- Quadratum Const
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Generation of the Platonic Forms: 1
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…which can be more briefly put as
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7 Tetrahedron: Cube: Octahedron: Do
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Designate CH by x, then cos ˆ C i
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Dodecahedron: 11 For the dodecahedr
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with a 10 5 13 5 5R a 2 10 55R
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15 A simple way of constructing eac
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Similarly, cosU ˆ O S 1 ,and ther
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C ˆ D ˆ O i 2 The cube dihedra
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21 As indicated for the cube (fig.
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23 or MO 5 2 3 R so that if we (ar
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Tetrahedron: For the tetrahedron, a
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a 6 6 R 2 6 6 27 R 12 6 r 3 3
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29 r 0. 794 R The more complex for
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31 Now, consider triangles AA HO a
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Dˆ i cos 2 33 We can therefor
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35 Ratio of Intersphere to Circumsp
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Cube: Octahedron: Dodecahedron: r R
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Comparison with Orthoscheme Approac
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1R O R ri R 41 cos csc 3 3 cos
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43 They are not what is generally t
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45 Kepler (1571-1630) discovered in
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47 We shall now determine the diame
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49 The stellation process is one wh
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51 i. Case of the Dodecahedron The
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53 These dipyramids in turn can be
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55 If the faces of the pyramids on
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57 - the great dodecahedron by addi
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59 and therefore through the vertic
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R e a the well-known relation in
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from Since ABCD is a golden rectang
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We have: Noting that cos Di 2 65 R
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67 Fig. 46A shows such a pentagonal
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The inner geometry of the GD will b
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71 2 2 2 Now H sin And sin 1c
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73 GSD. Since the apexes of the pyr
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The circumsphere radius of the enve
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where R S is the circumsphere of th
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And since We verify that as establi
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81 The intersection of these pyrami
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Now, as has just been established,
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85 fig. 45
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We have tanw 87 2 2 1 1 4 1 5 Wi
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89 The structure of this scaled G.I
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the three mutually perpendicular go
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93 For the dodecahedron, the golde
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95 so that 2R cos ˆ D i 2 For the
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Alternative Methods of Generating t
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