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About RobertLovesPi

I go by RobertLovesPi on-line, and am interested in many things, a large portion of which are geometrical. Welcome to my own little slice of the Internet. The viewpoints and opinions expressed on this website are my own. They should not be confused with those of my employer, nor any other organization, nor institution, of any kind.

A John Lennon Quote, On Waking Up, and Finding a Cure

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Source of quote: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=lennon+yoko&commit=Search

The Seven Types of Beatles Fans: My Utterly Biased View

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I have never met a serious fan of The Beatles who did not have one favorite Beatle. (I’m sure it is obvious which Beatle is my favorite.)

As for Yoko Ono, she is a highly polarizing figure among Beatles fans — they love her, or they hate her, but there is very little, if any, in-between, which is why I omitted “middle-ground” answers to the “Yoko question” in this chart.

Image credits: I found the pictures shown on these websites.

Source for John Lennon quote: this website.

Six “Cubish” Polyhedra

I’m using the term “cubish polyhedra” here to refer to polyhedra which resemble a cube, if one looks only at the faces they have which feature the largest number of sides, always six in number, and with positions corresponding to the faces of a cube. In the first two examples shown, these faces are 36-sided polygons, also known as triacontakaihexagons. (Any of the images in this post may be enlarged with a click.) 

Polyhedra fitting this description have appeared on this blog before, but it had not occurred to me to name them “cubish polyhedra” until today. The next two shown have icosakaioctagons, or 28-sided polygons, as their six faces which correspond to those of a cube. Also, and unlike the triacontakaihexagons in the first two cubish polyhedra above, these icosakaioctagons are regular.

The next two cubish polyhedra shown feature, on the left, six hexadecagons (16 sides per polygon) for “cubish faces,” which are shown in yellow — and on the right, six dodecagons (12 sides each), shown in orange. This last one, with the dodecagons, is unusual among cubish polyhedra in that all of its other faces are pentagons.

All six of these cubish polyhedra were made using Stella 4d: Polyhedron Navigator, a program you can find right here.

Eight Chiral Polyhedra with Icosidodecahedral Symmetry

To see a larger version of any rotating model, simply click on it.

Each of these polyhedral images was created using a program called Stella 4d, which is available here.

Eleven Convex, Non-Chiral Polyhedra Featuring Cuboctahedral Symmetry

To enlarge any of these images, simply click on the ones you choose.

All of these images were created using Stella 4d: Polyhedron Navigator, available at http://www.software3d.com/Stella.php.

Sixteen Convex Polyhedra Featuring Icosidodecahedral Symmetry

To enlarge any single image, simply click on it.

Of the five polyhedra above, all appear to feature decagons. Upon close inspection, though, one of them actually features icosagons — with half their sides very short. Can you spot this polyhedron?

The next set of three polyhedra all feature pentadecagons.

That’s eight so far. Not enough!

Here are eight more, to round out the set of all sixteen, each of which I made using Stella 4d: Polyhedron Navigator. This program may be tried for free at http://www.software3d.com/Stella.php.

Six Convex Polyhedra Featuring Convex Dodecagons, Some of Which Are Regular

Individual images may be enlarged with a click. They were created using Stella 4d: Polyhedron Navigator, which may be tried for free at http://www.software3d.com/Stella.php.

 

Circumparabolic Regions Inside a Unit Circle

circumparabolic regions

A circumparabolic region is found between a circle and a parabola, with the circle being chosen to include the vertex and x-intercepts of the parabola used, with the circle, to define the two circumparabolic regions for a given parabola-circle pair. There are four such regions shown above, rather than only two, because two parabolas are used above. The formulae for the parabolas, as well as the circle, are shown.

A puzzle which I will not be solving, I suspect, until I learn more integral calculus: what fraction of the circle’s area is shown in yellow?

87 Rotating Non-Convex, Non-Chiral Polyhedral Images Featuring Icosidodecahedral Symmetry, Plus Four Which Snuck In with Cuboctahedral Symmetry — Can You Find All the Intruders?

To see larger versions of any of these, simply click on the images.

24 to this point….

That’s 40 so far…

Now the count is at four dozen.

That was 26 more, so there are 48 + 26 = 74 so far.

Now the count is up to 83.

So there were 91 of these stored on my hard drive, from all my “hard work” playing with polyhedra using Stella 4d: Polyhedron Navigator. (It will be good for my computer to get all that hard drive space back!) If you’d like to try playing with the same program — for free — just try the free download at http://www.software3d.com/Stella.php.

Three Polyhedra Featuring Heptagons

For some reason I do not fully understand, polyhedra featuring heptagons, even if irregular, do not appear often, at least not in my geometrical investigations — so I was pleased to find these three, using Stella 4d: Polyhedron Navigator, available at http://www.software3d.com/Stella.php.