June 2010
4 posts
Today
Was my first real day of work, complete with a co-worker. What fun!
For the first time, I’m doing something that I don’t think I should just publish to the web willy-nilly. Which makes me feel important, though I don’t think it actually makes me important.
We came up with a system of labeling a cube and an octahedron and of placing their nets in correspondence with one...
Nothin' but Net
It’s my first day on my summer research job and I’m building polyhedra out of snap-together polygon toys. I’ll take my notes for the day in this document and it’ll double as a blog entry. What luck!
So, for starters, a net is a way of connecting polygons in 2-D so that they fold up into a particular polyhedron.
Platonic solids—all faces identical, all vertices...
