Sentences with word «icosahedron»

3d truncated icosahedron nets with faces representing 32 countries in the world cup.

This group is the smallest non-abelian simple group, and it characterizes the orientation - preserving symmetries of the regular icosahedron and dodecahedron.

I wrote a piece of code which displayed spinning icosahedrons; as many as possible until the framerate dropped below 60Hz.

These 20 - sided icosahedrons or 6 - sided traditional cubes will delight any fan of the odds!

Experiments involving the laser vaporization of graphite have indicated that one particular duster of carbon, C60, is preeminently stable; this special stability may be evidence that C60 can readily take the form of a hollow truncated icosahedron (a sort of molecular soccerball).

There are only five such shapes in the three - dimensional world; the other three are the octahedron (eight triangular sides), icosahedron (20 triangles), and dodecahedron (12 pentagons).

You can visualize it as half an icosahedron that is folded into an octahedron with some missing outer faces, plus some extra internally coinciding and interpenetrating extra faces.

Each «side» of an 11 - cell is a shape called a hemicosahedron (a.k.a. a hemi - icosahedron).

My bedroom was an icosahedron.

The construction of E8, which is fundamental to String Theory and Grand Unified Theory, using the 3D geometry of the icosahedron — a polyhedron with 20 faces — is ground - breaking and completely against the prevailing eight - dimensional view.

The set comes with detailed instructions for building three basic structures — a tetrahedron, an octahedron, and an icosahedron.

The group's elements, which appear as yellow disks in this image, are arranged at the vertices of a truncated icosahedron, shown here in stereographic projection, while the group's generators, of orders 2 and 5, correspond to the regions between the disks, colored red and blue, respectively.

The hovering guests include five regular, convex polyhedrons comprised of identically sided, congruent faces: the tetrahedron, cube, octahedron, dodecahedron and icosahedron.

One of the most attractive sculptures placed inside the gallery is a large - scale, wooden structure by Ai Weiwei, an aerial form assembled in the shape of an icosahedron, a form first illustrated by Leonardo da Vinci for the mathematician Luca Pacioli's 1509 treaty The Divine Proportion.

A highlight of the exhibition includes a large - scale, wooden structure by Ai Weiwei assembled in the shape of a icosahedron, a form first illustrated by Leonardo da Vinci for the mathematician Luca Pacioli's 1509 treaty The Divine Proportion.

Lee requires the viewer to use guidelines he provides to visualize two platonic solids fitting within a sphere, the icosahedron and its dual the dodecahedron.

Then came this question: «The fortune - telling die inside a standard Magic 8 Ball is an icosahedron, meaning it has how many triangular faces?»