Cool! Looks very reminiscent of Meyer's rational coloring of the sphere. http://math.ucsd.edu/~dmeyer/research/publications/ksnull/abs.html ----- Original Message Follows -----

The Waterman polyhedra are apparently the convex hulls of the centers of spheres in the fruitstand packing that lie within a fixed radius of a fixed point. For large distances, they closely approximate spheres. The original image is very large, and the lacework of polyhedron edges is clearly visible at full size. I have reduced it to a 1024x768 wallpaper, in which the polyhedral faces are not distinguishable, the overall impression is of a spherical fractal with with a network of great circles emphasized.

http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/~pbourke/polyhedra/waterman/index.html

- David W. Wilson

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