4 Jan
2003
4 Jan
'03
12:07 p.m.
I'll respond to George Hart's highly embarrassing hexagon question as soon as I unwedge my head on the subject.
Gack. My equations enforced sphericity and lateral equality, but not planarity! The absurdity is even more blatant with my claim of rhombi. But the rhombi are so nearly square, and the hexagons so nearly regular that the errors are too small to see, and the pictures look great. So, the relaxation from "regular" to "equilateral" in the definition of "uniform polyhedron" is no relaxation at all. And I'm equally embarrssed by missing MKleber's prism solution. But if your soccer ball seams needn't quite lie on great circles, I have some pretty designs. --rwg