Tessellation Featuring Dodecagons

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Tessellation Featuring Decagons

Pentagonal Mosaic

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Pentagonal Mosaic

Rhombic TriacontaSaturn

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Rhombic TriacontaSaturn

One of many photographs of Saturn provided by the Cassini spacecraft, and then projected onto the faces of a rhombic triacontahedron with the software available at http://www.software3d.com/stella.php.

Sol, Terra, and Luna On a Rhombicosidodecahedron

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Sol, Terra, and Luna On a Rhombicosidodecahedron

Projecting images on the sun, earth, and moon onto the faces of a rhombicosidodecahedron was accomplished with Stella 4d, software you may try for free at http://www.software3d.com/Stella.php.

Two Saturnian Moons Adorning a Rhombic Dodecahedron

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Two Saturnian Moons Adorning a Rhombic Dodecahedron

The larger moon shown, Saturn’s largest, is Titan, recognizable by its hazy atmosphere. The smaller one, which looks more like our own moon, is Rhea.

This image was captured by the Cassini spacecraft, which has been investigating the Saturnian system now for years.

Projecting the images onto the faces of a rhombic dodecahedron was done with Stella 4d, software you may try for free at http://www.software3d.com/stella.php.

Rhea Before Titan

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Rhea Before Titan

I found this here: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/cassini/multimedia/gallery-indexRhea.html

If I had a “bucket list,” things like seeing this with my own eyes would be on it.

Five and Dime III

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Five and Dime III

Conjucture About the Rhombic Penrose Tiling

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Conjucture About the Rhombic Penrose Tiling

Roger Penrose is famous for many things, including the discovery of aperiodic tilings, the most familiar of which involves two types of rhombus:

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I think I have made a minor discovery about this Penrose tiling, and that is that one can add regular pentagons to it, in varying levels of pentagon-density, as shown in the first image, without it losing its aperiodicity. (I created only the first image, not the second.) I have not, however, proven this, and doubt I will.

Is this conjecture provable? I think so, but I lack the ability to write such a proof myself.

Five and Dime II

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Five and Dime II

Five and Dime

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Five and Dime