Re: [math-fun] late follow-up

On 1/4/07, Michael Kleber <michael.kleber@gmail.com> wrote:

My intuition is that this, like the abiguous-planar case, would be better suited to a search targeted at finding those pairs to glue, rather than looking for an example with small edge lengths.

In 2 dimensions, a direct search for 6-vertex configurations became tedious at around edge-length 12; in contrast, gluing together pairs of (previously computed) 5-vertex cases was good for edge 32 --- and struck oil! It could well be that an "intelligent" construction, similar to that of the planar ambiguous case, is the way to go in 3-D. So --- any ideas, anybody? Fred Lunnon