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- From: Jim.Buddenhagen@launchpad.unc.edu (Jim Buddenhagen)
- Subject: How's your geometric intuition?
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- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 22:23:28 GMT
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- Start with a regular tetrahedron circumscribed by a sphere. Subdivide
- each triangle into 4 triangles by connecting edge midpoints, and project
- to the sphere (radially), to obtain a new polyhedron with all vertices
- on the sphere and with 16 triangular faces.
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- Repeat this procedure with the new polyhedron to get a third polyhedron.
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- True or false: this third polyhedron is convex.
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- (I found the answer surprising, what about you?)
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