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Dodecahedral 5-ring

This is more of a study than a real model. After a failed meta-dodecahedron attempt, I found (a bit late) than putting 5 dodecahedra in a ring causes some serious problems.

 

Here I wanted to see how much problem, so I put together a single ring to see the amount of distorsion it caused.

 

You can see here the answer : a lot ! It is heavily skewed, and there is now way to have a regular hole...

It is more than a bit of bother, as I intended to use such rings as basic elements for a ambitious project I'm working on. :/

 

However there is a way to solve the problem, you can see it here and here.

 

 

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Uploaded on May 2, 2010
Taken on May 2, 2010