Cutting off the vertices of a regular polyhedron creates another polyhedron which may also have faces that are regular polygons. If one cuts off the vertices of a regular twenty-sided icosahedron, one ...

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AltDynamic has returned to Kickstarter for a 17th time to launch their new Truncated Icosahedron. Constructed from titanium and steel the wireframe model has been inspired by the 1996 Nobel Prize ...

As I was taking my ride inside this wooden soccer ball, I played around with the physics of the spin and realized that the spin could be manipulated via the law of angular momentum conservation. The ...

Colleen Wahl, assistant professor of dance at Alfred University, has published a new research paper in the journal Laser that focuses on intersections of math and art. The paper—titled “An Icosahedron ...

For University of Washington Institute of Protein Design scientists working to invent molecular tools, vehicles, and devices for medicine and other fields, the icosahedron's geometry is inspiring. Its ...