And think of the spherical packing puzzles a person might come up with by combining the individual Voronoi regions commanded by adjacent spheres, something along these lines... http://www.plambeck.org/oldhtml/mathematics/klarner/tombsupplement/index.htm Thane Plambeck http://www.plambeck.org/ehome.htm R. William Gosper wrote:
dwilson>http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/~pbourke/polyhedra/waterman/index.html Yow, DeathStars! Pentagons, heptagons, adjacent nonagons, 14- and 16-gons. Are all n-gons possible? And for what Radii^2/2 are all the vertices on the sphere? What an interesting approach to triangulation. --rwg
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