Re: deLURKing, star, MCE, bear, question

In article <5t7lsg$cel$1...@news.NetVision.net.il>, 
"Rammy M." <r-m...@mail.netvision.net.il> writes:
>  I've been reading this ng for quite a while now, enough of this
>*u*king around!  and I'm sure that you can guess what I mean by
>reading my subject line.  That incredible waterfall a little while
>back inspired me to do this "stellated dodecahedron" as seen in
>Escher's _Order and Chaos_ and in _Gravity_ .  Now who can tell me
>what a stellated rhombic dodecahedron is ... ?

A dodecahedron is made approx as follows: on a sheet of card draw a 
regular pentagon with similar pentagons on each of its sides.  Cut
between these "petals" and fold them down to meet makes a kind of
ashtray thingie with five points at the edges; and you can stand
it above an upside down copy of the same thing, point touching
point. Now rotate 1/10th circle and join together -- dodecahedron.
Twelve pentagonal faces (1 on top, ring of 5, ring of 5, 1 bottom);
see earlier discsussion on the platonic solids.

Stellated == grow a 5sided pyramid upon each pentagonal face.

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Excellent drawing BTW, how long did it take you. (How about a stellated
dodecahedron next?).


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