It was discovered through play that by wrapping the outlying vertices of a group of tessellated Rhombic Dodecahedra with a convex hull, an approximation of a Truncated Octahedron was produced. Upon further investigation, it was discovered that an approximation of a Rhombic Dodecahedron emerged by wrapping the outlying vertices of a group of tessellated Truncated Octahedra with a convex hull.
Tag: geometry
A space-filling polyhedron is one that can be used to generate a tessellation in space. That means that by duplicating and translating (not rotating) the shape, we can create a three-dimensional tiling that leaves no gaps between its constituent shapes. This is of course easy to visualize with a cube; things begin to get both messy and interesting when you explore tessellations with other non-platonic space-filling shapes. And so began my brief but exciting journey into the lands of the Rhombic Dodecahedron.
In this post, we would like to use our atomic icospherical building block, the Triangle, to build up the basic Icosahedron, which is an icosphere of recursive depth zero.
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