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February 12, 2008

Tuesday

The geometry challenge... you must include a regular polygon.

For bonus points, make it a polyhedron instead.

For amazing super bonus points... make it a polychoron -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polychoron.

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Strange Geometries

Lee was an origami nut. Nothing was safe–not my art papers, not the newspaper, not post-it notes. A thousand cranes was a warm-up project, in his opinion.

He was always working to find a more complex tangle of papers that still yielded a recognizable figure.

One day last spring, I found him folding atop a ladder. A scintillating ball of folded pointed papers stood in the living room, nearly to the ceiling. “I’ve almost made it!” he crowed. “A Schlafli-Hess polychoron!”

“You’ve made--a what?”

“A four-dimensional figure, based on the pentagon! Just one more fold . . .”

And with that, Lee vanished.

Posted by: Spike at February 12, 2008 1:35 PM · Permalink