1. Nets for Cowley's Dodecarhombus
1. Nets for Cowley's Dodecarhombus
This Demonstration shows that Cowley's net can be folded into a nonconvex solid with nonplanar faces.
In[1, pp. 2–3, 3], it was shown that Cowley's dodecarhombus net did not consist of golden rhombuses nor of rhombuses of rhombic dodecahedron, so it cannot be folded into a convex polyhedron. But if we consider Cowley's rhombuses as hinged equilateral triangles, his net can be folded into a nonconvex polyhedron. So in this case, rhombuses are a kind of skeleton in the sense of[4, p. 282], although not all dihedral angles are congruent.
Details
Details
According to[6, 7] the shape appears in a 1752 book by John Lodge Cowley, labeled as the dodecarhombus[2] and is named after Stanko Bilinski, who rediscovered it in 1960. But the rhombuses of Cowley are 60° degree[3], so the previous statement is not true.
References
References
[2] J. L. Cowley, Geometry Made Easy: A New and Methodical Explanation of the Elemnets[sic] of Geometry, London: Mechell, 1752.
[3] B. Grünbaum. "The Bilinski Dodecahedron, and Assorted Parallelohedra, Zonohedra, Monohedra, Isozonohedra and Otherhedra." (Dec 3, 2018) digital.lib.washington.edu/researchworks/bitstream/handle/1773/15593/Bilinski_dodecahedron.pdf.
[4] P. R. Cromwell, Polyhedra, New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997.
[5] M. Friedman, A History of Folding in Mathematics: Mathematizing the Margins, New York, NY: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2018.
[7] G. Hart (2000), "A color-matching dissection of the rhombic enneacontahedron", Symmetry: Culture and Science, 11 (1–4): 183–199, http://www.georgehart.com/dissect-re/dissect-re.htm
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Permanent Citation
Permanent Citation
Izidor Hafner, Ed Pegg Jr
"1. Nets for Cowley's Dodecarhombus" from the Wolfram Demonstrations Project http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/1NetsForCowleysDodecarhombus/
Published: December 4, 2018