Here, with so many shameful things in our state’s history, it’s nice to have the opportunity to be proud to be an Arkansan. The cause of this pride? Judge Chris Piazza’s ruling, yesterday, allowing the first legal gay marriages in all of the American South to occur in this state — my state — today.
Dare I hope that this is the beginning of a progressive trend here?
Same-sex couples are getting legally married for the first time in Arkansas — today. I live in Arkansas. I didn’t expect to see this happen in my state for at least a decade.
Thank you, Judge Piazza.
(For more information, simply google “Arkansas gay marriage.” It’s all over the news.)
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This “quilt pattern” is based on the icosidodecahedron. I made it using Stella 4d, software you may try or buy at http://www.software3d.com/Stella.php.
Software credit: I made this image using Stella 4d, available at http://www.software3d.com/Stella.php (free trial download available).
Software credit: I made this image using Stella 4d, available at http://www.software3d.com/Stella.php (free trial download available).
Software credit: I made this image using Stella 4d, available at http://www.software3d.com/Stella.php (free trial download available).
When adding icosakaipentagonal prisms (those where the bases have 25 sides) to the thirty square faces of a rhombicosidodecahedron, the prisms can have one of two orientations. One is above, and here is the other one (click to enlarge):
Software credit: I made these images using Stella 4d, available at http://www.software3d.com/Stella.php (free trial download available).
Software credit: I made this using Stella 4d, available at http://www.software3d.com/Stella.php (free trial download available).
This compound is unusual in that it is most attractive as a ball-and-stick model, with the faces rendered invisible, rather than the traditional coloring for compounds. In the traditional coloring, no faces are hidden, and each component of the compound is given faces of a different color. Here’s the same compound, rendered in the traditional manner:
Of course, matters of aesthetics are not subject to mathematical proof. Some might prefer the second version to the first.
Software credit: please see www.software3d.com/Stella.php to try or buy Stella 4d, the software I use to make these polyhedral images.
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