Some Pictures of Today’s Partial Solar Eclipse

This is how today’s eclipse of the sun looked in Maumelle, Arkansas, USA, with solar viewing sunglasses held over my cell phone camera. The camera is set on maximum magnification (x10).

Next, here’s a shot of a shadow of a tree, along with another of the tree itself. Can you see the solar crescents on the street?

It’s hard to aim a cell phone camera at the sun while holding eclipse-viewing sunglasses over the lens. For some shots, I didn’t have the sunglasses positioned correctly, resulting in images like this. These shots show a whited-out sun, along with some sort of internal reflection which produced a dimmed-down mirror-image of the eclipsed sun. They appear below, with varying degrees of cropping.

Partially Truncated Platonic and Rhombic Dodecahedra

chiral polyhedron featuring a dozen hexagons and four triangles

Each of these dodecahedra were modified by truncations  at exactly four of their three-valent vertices. As a result, each has four equilateral triangles as faces. In the one above, the Platonic dodecahedron’s pentagonal faces are modified into a dozen irregular hexagons by these truncations, while, in the one below, the rhombic dodecahedron’s faces are modified into twelve irregular pentagons.

dozen pents 4 triangles

Both of these polyhedra were created using Stella 4d, software you can try for yourself at this website.