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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.

Four-Color Tessellation

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Four-Color Tessellation

Tessellation Featuring Squares, Triangles, and Dodecagons

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Tessellation Featuring Squares, Triangles, and Decagons

Radial Tessellation of the Plane Using Kites

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Radial Tessellation of the Plane Using Kites

The kites to use have side lengths in a ratio of one to the square root of three, and angle measures of 60, 90, 120, and 90 degrees.

Puckered Ring of Ten Great Rhombicosidodecahedra

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Puckered Ring of Ten Great Rhombicosidodecahedra

Created using software here: http://www.software3d.com/stella.php.

A Ball of Mica in Ultraviolet

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A Ball of Mica in Ultraviolet
(Software credit: see http://www.software3d.com/stella.php)

Icosahedral Cluster of Snub Dodecahedra

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Icosahedral Cluster of Snub Dodecahedra

http://www.software3d.com/stella,php — that’s the place to go to try the software used to make this

Octahedral Nulloid

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Octahedral Nulloid

A nulloid is a polyhedron with zero volume.

See http://www.software3d.com/stella.php for the software used to produce this image.

Faceted Icosahedron with Tetrahedral Symmetry

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Faceted Icosahedron with Tetrahedral Symmetry

Go Fly Sixty Kites!

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Go Fly Sixty Kites!

Because just about anyone can fly one kite at a time….

(Software credit: see http://www.software3d.com/stella.php)

Faceted Rhombic Triacontahedron

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Faceted Rhombic Triacontahedron

Want to try making these yourself? Just pop over to http://www.software3d.com/stella.php — there’s a free trial download available.