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The lamps

Side journeys
Da Vinci
Divine proportion
Dodecahedron
Dymaxion
Euclid
Golden mean
Hexagon
Icosahedron
Icosidodecahedron
Making a lamp
Motivation
Octagon
On my workbench
Pentagon
Pacioli
Paper
Plato
Rhombicosido-
decahedron
Rhombicub-
octahedron
Symmetry
Truncation
Wood
Zometool
 

Currently on my workbench – a rhombicosidodecahedron

I have a Zome model of a rhombicosidodecahedron on my desk. This is, in my opinion, the most beautiful polyhedron. And it is the lamp I've wanted to make—even before I knew this shape—ever since I started creating these lamps.

Rhombicosidodecahedron

I had been staring at this shape every night for several nights trying to understand it. I have books that tell me the angles and other essential facts of each of the common polyhedra, but something in me wants to know these shapes more intimately than that.


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