[HN Gopher] The Polyhedral Perspective
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       The Polyhedral Perspective
        
       Author : Hooke
       Score  : 20 points
       Date   : 2022-10-14 05:31 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | photochemsyn wrote:
       | Nice article. The expansion of Euclidean geometry into hyperbolic
       | and elliptical space did change all this fundamentally, most
       | popularly seen in MC Escher's work. Here for example is a
       | hyperbolic dodecahedron (in which each pentagon has five right
       | angles).
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       | http://www.bulatov.org/math/1101/webtalk.html#(38)
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       | That site also has a lot of other nice examples and analysis of
       | MC Escher drawings.
        
       | COGlory wrote:
       | What is mindlbowing to me is that all this work on geometry was
       | initially done when there was absolutely no concept of atomic
       | particles, and very little real representation in "visible"
       | nature.
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       | Then hundreds of years later we started to look at macromolecules
       | and found their assembly states often are perfect, or near-
       | perfect representations of platonic solids, such as icosahedral
       | viruses, octohedral and tetrahedral iron storage proteins, etc.
        
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