[sdiy] solid geometry

[Glen]

At 05:45 PM 1/3/04 , Tim Stinchcombe wrote:

>Google on 'Platonic solids' and 'Buckminster Fuller', and I expect that
>buried in there somewhere you'll find lots numbers and formulae.

Those probably aren't the best terms to put into Google. You'll get a lot
of extraneous info with those particular terms. I happen to have a few
links handy for this topic. 

The Wolfram link is a good introduction to this classic problem. The ATT
link has some suggestions for cases involving 24 points. Is that close
enough? The SWIN link has some C++ source code available, to assist in
estimating point positions for arbitrary numbers of points.

http://mathworld.wolfram.com/SphericalCode.html
http://www.research.att.com/~njas/packings/index.html
http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/~pbourke/geometry/spherepoints/
http://www.math-atlas.org/index/spheres.html


later,
Glen Berry