April | 2014 | RobertLovesPi.net

Lightning Bolts and Triskelions

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Lightning Bolts and Triskelions

The yellow “triskelions” here are twenty in number, and are made of three irregular pentagons each. The red “lightning bolts” between them are thirty in number, and are made with two irregular quadrilaterals each.

I stumbled across this polyhedron by accident, while playing with different polyhedral transformations possible using Stella 4d: Polyhedron Navigator. You may try this software yourself at http://www.software3d.com/Stella.php as a free trial download, before deciding whether to purchase the fully-functioning version.

My Wikipedia Userboxen Collection, Part V

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My Wikipedia Userboxen Collection, Part V

Finally: the last installment!

My Wikipedia Userboxen Collection, Part IV

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My Wikipedia Userboxen Collection, Part IV

If you’re also a Wikipedean, and want some of these userboxen for yourself, feel free to copy them from my userpage. To help you find it: my username on Wikipedea is RobertAustin at the time of this posting, but should change to RobertLovesPi in just a few days.

My Wikipedia Userboxen Collection, Part III

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My Wikipedia Userboxen Collection, Part III

And, yes, there are even more….

My Wikipedia Userboxen Collection, Part II

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My Wikipedia Userboxen Collection, Part II

Collecting userboxen on Wikipedia is fun, but almost no one (except other Wikipedians) ever sees such collections. Since you can learn a lot about a given Wikipedian by their collection of userboxen, my blog seems like a good place to re-post my collection. It’s being done in pieces, simply to maintain legibility.

My Wikipedia Userboxen Collection, Part I

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My Wikipedia Userboxen Collection, Part I

I’ve been editing Wikipedia under my own (legal) name for years, although I just submitted a request to have my Wikipedia-name changed to match the name of this blog. Every Wikipedia user has a user page, and can put these userboxen on it. Here’s the first part of my collection.