Sunday, May 19, 2013

Decahedron.





It's a 10 sided polygon.

Does anyone know what "Bucky Balls" are?
They're small magnetic balls that are very expensive lol. Not that expensive, just more than you'd like.
Anyways, a guy on youtube made a decahedron and displayed it.
My friends and I joked how many balls it took to make that. Then I realized I really wanted to figure it out.
Boring and mathematical? Fuck yeah..
But after everyone's gone to sleep and you can't debate philosophy with anyone then what else is there?

A rough explanation:
  • Each side is 12 'balls' long 
  • There are 10 total faces to this shape
  • You need the area to figure out the volume.
I don't know if I'm even correct but after a few hours of looking up formulas and making pretty diagrams I came to the total of: 1200 balls. 

Isn't that weird? 10 faces and each side is 12 balls long. Coincidental. 
I'm sure there is another 10 somewhere in there which would make 10*10*12=1200.
That would be a very each calculation.
I didn't go that route. 

The End - The Beginning

No this isn't dead.
Is the idea dead?
No, it still is continuously wrapped around my head and I'll never forget it.
However, I repeat myself.
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I need to stop posting the same old stuff and actually post interesting/enjoyable things.
Here's to a hiatus of my pain/suffering under the tyrant of Amphetamines and a new beginning of creation and wonder.
Thank you <3