SW10: Powernaut 2011 #8: What the HELL is a Pentahedron?

Rob Rogers rrogers at uri.org
Fri Oct 12 19:35:40 PDT 2012


On Oct 7, 6:14 pm, Scott Eiler <sei... at eilertech.com> wrote:
> - What's a Pentahedron really look like up close? It's actually a
> hyper-tetrahedron, a four-dimensional solid with triangular surfaces.
> (2005/pentahedron.htm) When you look it it, it looks like a pyramid with
> four shiny pyramid shadows that make your vision of everything else go
> blurry. If you blur your vision of the Pentahedron just right, it looks
> like a pentagram.

If he could read, my shape-obsessed son would declare
this to be the greatest thing ever to appear on RACC.

--Rob Rogers
--Trying to get in shapes


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