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- From: watson@madvax.uwa.oz.au (David Watson)
- Newsgroups: comp.graphics
- Subject: Re: icosahedron and geodesics
- Date: 31 Dec 1992 01:04:56 GMT
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- In article <C01GHy.EG5@csn.org>, c4craig@teal.csn.org (Craig Anderson) writes
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- |> 1) What are the x,y,z coordinates for an icosahedron?
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- For an icosahedron centered at (0,0,0) you can use appropriate permutations
- of the set {0, 1, .5+.5*5^.5}. Each set of four vertices which lie in
- a plane containing two Cartesian axes are the vertices of a golden rectangle.
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