To me, saying that a new class of polyhedra has been found, is somewhat like saying that a new class of numbers has been found. Although, I do find it interesting that these polyhedra can be realized with equilateral planar faces. Also, perhaps John Conway's cannonical form for convex polyhedra (1995 or earlier) deserves to be better known. See https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/geometry.forum/M-mcEmZz1-M/hx_hGWDA-S8... On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 12:27 PM, Robert Baillie <rjbaillie@frii.com> wrote:
I hope I'm not repeating a post, but I ran across an interesting article today in Science News: "Goldberg variations: New shapes for molecular cages" https://www.sciencenews.org/article/goldberg-variations-new-shapes-molecular...
The original PNAS article is blocked unless one can break in or pay $10 to read it.
The best description I've found on-line is: http://noiselesschatter.com/2014/02/25/polyhedra-and-the-media/
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