Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2002 17:00:46 EST
Subject: Re: PUPT: re: dodecahedron


    Re: Dodecahedron:
    All 24 "sticks" or tubes are of equal length.  Otherwise, they will not 
work correctly.  For a model, you can lay out 24 straws linked by a single 
strand of string.  Make 4 X's with tops and bottoms...Start at the upper 
left, cross diagonally to the bottom of the first X, then back to the left 
across the bottom and up diagonally to the top right of the first X.  Repeat 
three more X's and place the final 4 segments across the tops of the 4 X's.  
Tie each center of the 4 X's and tie at the corners, then fold the 3rd and 
4th X's over the 1st and 2nd and you have the dodecahedron. 
     I've make at least 50 of these in different incarnations...sometimes 
making the triangles made from the bottom/tops and center of the X's as 
solids plates, sometimes  painting the "inside" and "outside" complimentary 
colors, sometimes wrapping the tubes with tinsel or ribbon.  I am now on the 
trail of illuminating the inside of the tubes of the dodecahedron with fibre 
optics.  
    Hopefully, this description is not too difficult to follow.  If I had a 
pad and paper, it would be a snap.  Do you want jpegs?  JIm Gamble


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