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Seven Fanciful Designs for Polyhedral Throwing Stars with 7-Fold Dihedral Symmetry

Posted on 27 February 2016 by RobertLovesPi

7-fold throwing star 2

7-fold throwing star 5

7-fold throwing star

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7-fold throwing star 3

7-fold throwing star 4

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I made these using Stella 4d, a program available at http://www.software3d.com/Stella.php. Any of these images may be enlarged with a click.

7 thoughts on “Seven Fanciful Designs for Polyhedral Throwing Stars with 7-Fold Dihedral Symmetry”

swo8 on 27 February 2016 at 13:12 said:

I wonder if they would make good frisbees? They are nice to look at.
Leslie

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- RobertLovesPi on 27 February 2016 at 18:15 said:
  
  As long as the edges weren’t sharpened, they might. I wouldn’t try catching a sharpened one, though!
  
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  - swo8 on 27 February 2016 at 18:22 said:
    
    Good point, and they should be a softer plastic too.
    Leslie
    
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    - RobertLovesPi on 27 February 2016 at 18:42 said:
      
      Rather than metal? I agree. I think these are actually just made of electrons and photons, at this point, though!
      
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      - swo8 on 27 February 2016 at 18:43 said:
        
        They could probably make moulds out of them and then reproduce them in a soft plastic.
        Leslie
        
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      - RobertLovesPi on 28 February 2016 at 00:17 said:
        
        They may do so. I can’t own the designs. No one owns math.
        
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      - swo8 on 28 February 2016 at 10:16 said:
        
        A circle is mathematical design and they make a lot of things in that shape. The colours and variation are your design. I think they would be a real hit.
        Leslie
        
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