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From: Kevin Kreamer <kreamer@centraltx.net>
Subject: Re: Request:  Geometric Solids
Date: 1997/05/29
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Dave Bird---St Hippo of Augustine wrote:

> In article <338C262B.7119@garnet.fsu.edu>,
> Michael Naylor <mnaylor@garnet.fsu.edu> writes:
> >The Platonic, or
> >perfect, solids are those five shapes with every face a regular
> polygon,
> >and having the same number of edges meeting at each vertex...
> otherwise
> >known as "D & D dice".
>
> Omigawd. Remind me:  terahedron (three triangles meet at each vertex),
>
> cube (four squares meet at each vertex),  and...  Dodecahedron
> and Icosahedron, one is converse to the other i.e. got by drawing a
> dot
> for the centre of each face of the other, then that thing with 60
> vertices like the drawing on a football.  Hmm.  Yes, they might be
> a bit awkward to draw in ascii.
>
>                                             |~/           |~/
> ~~|;'^';-._.-;'^';-._.-;'^';-._.-;'^';-._.-;||';-._.-;'^';||_
> -;'^'0-|~~
> P |      Woof Woof, Glug Glug               ||____________||      0  |
> P
> O |   Who Drowned the Judge's Dog?          | . . . . . . . '----. 0 |
> O
> O |         answers on                  *---|_______________  @__o0  |
> O
> L |_<a href="news:alt.religion.scientology">________________|/_______|
> L
>  and<a href="http://www.xemu.demon.co.uk/clam/lynx/q0.html">

Here are a few ideas for the terahedron.  If someone can improve upon
them, please do so.
             ^
           /|\
          / | \
         /  |  \
     KCK '-.|.-'

             A
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           - I -

            A
           /I\
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     KCK '//I\\'
           'I'


               /A\
              /*I=\
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          /*^***I=^^==\
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        /*^^****I^======\
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   KCK   \*^****I==^^==/
          \^****I=====/
           \****I====/
            \***I===/
             \**I==/
              \*I=/
                V



                ^
               /A\
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   KCK   '//////I\\\\\\'
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--
Kevin