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#Non Euclydina Geometry

    22-Nov-93 17:03:29
Fm: James Coulter[Mindscape] 73670,677
To: John Schmidt 71242,2366
It would appear that you beat us to the solution singlehandedly with a dictionary! Can AutoCAD create all of these regular polyhedrons? If so, David's problem becomes only a matter of geometric construction. Also, I recall David mentioning that a Dodecahedron, (12 pentagons) was not sufficiently "busy". Using the Icosahedron (20 triangles), would help, but the packed nature of the construction might contradict the desired effect. If the radii of the circles were reduced so that there was more space between the cones, (hence, they would not be tangent, but the general construction principles would be the same) this might visually enhance the image.