Because it has squares for sides that meet with three or five in the corners.
Meet my new crocheting project, a regular twelve-sided polyhedron in disguise…
As you can see, it’s open on one side: five squares are missing.
The advantage of this missing part is that you can turn the whole thing inside-out, like here. In this picture you can clearly see a five-corner and a three-corner. The yarn I used changes color every 30 cm or so, giving these nice stripes.
How is this a dodecahedron you ask?
Well, take a corner where five squares meet, and draw a pentagon around it. It consists of five triangles, each one-half of a square. You can do that on every ‘five-corner’ of the bowl (including the one that’s not there), none of the pentagons will overlap, and there are twelve of them.
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Leuk, zo’n aaibaar wiskundig figuur! (Ff in het Nederlands, want het Engelse equivalent van ‘aaibaar’ wil me niet te binnen schieten, of toch, ‘strokable’?)
This is amazing. I love it!
Dank je / Thanks!
I love the 3-4-5! I have been searching for a pattern for a twelve sided die for a friend who is a long time player of games. I would very much like to have the pattern for my own use (not to make to sell).
Would you be willing to share the pattern? I would be happy to purchase the pattern.
Thank you.
Carol Ann
Can we now expect all the platonic solids? Can we do requests?
Well, at the moment I’m more into the variations on platonic solids (as this one is), but of course you can do requests! (although I don’t promise anything…)
Well, if you can pull it off an icosahedron would be cool.
A Torus perhaps?
Icosahedron is easy – take this thing here, and look at the triangles (where three squares meet) as the sides. Such a triangle consists of three halves of squares and there are, or would be if it was complete, twenty of them. Ta dah!
And I’ve done a torus before, too.
Anything else? :-)
Well, there is also a double torus, and a triple, and a … :-P
Hm, help me here, what’s a double torus?
My latest project is based on the picture found here…
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_torus
You can add as many holes as you like. :-)
Oh, of course… that’s a good idea!
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How did you make the different faces? Are they continual, made in one piece, or sewn together?
And,
Have you seen Miyuki Kawamura’s squeletons of platonic solids? Would you know how to make them? I do not have the mathematical knowledge for that, but I’d love to be able to make some of the models in http://www.toroidalsnark.net/mkexh2005/mkexh2005-Pages/Image5.html
All the best!
Wendy
Hi Wendy, thanks for the opictures of the ‘skeletons of Platonic solids’. I hadn’t seen it before, it looks pretty cool!
As for your first question: the faces are crocheted one after another, every time using the side of a ompleted face as the base for the next. (I’m not sure if that’s what you mean by continuous?) I always try to make it so I don’t need to sew anything, and in this way (with a little bit of cheating at some point) I made the whole thing from a single thread.
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