{"id":733,"date":"2003-01-18T01:36:48","date_gmt":"2003-01-18T09:36:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ogre.nu\/wp\/?p=733"},"modified":"2004-10-23T17:17:35","modified_gmt":"2004-10-24T01:17:35","slug":"fun-with-deltahedra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=733","title":{"rendered":"fun with deltahedra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got a new toy: 94 rods with a magnet at each end, and 36 steel balls.  (This kit is called <i>Mega Magz<\/i>, but I think I&#8217;ve seen similar kits under other names.)  With these balls and rods, I build selected examples from my catalog of <a href=\"\/soccer.html\">fullerenes<\/a>, or rather their duals: what you get if you exchange vertices with faces.  I wish I could show you my latest construction, which uses 28 balls and 78 sticks in tetrahedral symmetry (but chiral); I even managed to arrange it so that each of the seven colors is used only for symmetry-equivalent edges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got a new toy: 94 rods with a magnet at each end, and 36 steel balls. (This kit is called Mega Magz, but I think I&#8217;ve seen similar kits under other names.) With these balls and rods, I build &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=733\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mathematics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}