Sentences with phrase «sided dodecahedron»
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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).
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To annoy him, I said there could be a whole universe that is nothing more than a dodecahedron, a 12 - sided figure the Greeks described 2,500 years ago.
This installation made up of the dodecahedron, a 12 - sided geometric form explored by many scientists and artists over the centuries because of its beautiful symmetry.
The hovering guests include five regular, convex polyhedrons comprised of identically sided, congruent faces: the tetrahedron, cube, octahedron, dodecahedron and icosahedron.
The title of this show encapsulates the ethos of Ryden's continued investigation of natural phenomena and the beauty of earthly energies; the geometric structure of a dodecahedron is a solid figure whose 12 - sided perfection and symmetry has been the inspiration for extensive inquiry by mathematicians since ancient times.
Smith constructed the shape from twelve - sided modular units, called rhomboidal dodecahedrons.
Nanoleaf, the company behind the popular HomeKit - enabled Nanoleaf Light Panels (formerly called the Aurora), today announced the upcoming launch of the Nanoleaf Remote.The Nanoleaf Remote, priced at $ 49.99, is a neat - looking dodecahedron - shaped device that's designed to let you change your HomeKit scenes and dim the lights just by manipulating the remote.There are 12 sides to the Nanoleaf Remote, each of which can be set to a different HomeKit scene.