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0 pointsfoobarbecue1y ago0 comments

I, for one, would really like a spectre soccer ball.

Seriously, though, I think the implications for mineralogy are interesting.

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I don't know whether anyone's designed a spectre soccer ball, but someone has designed a soccer ball based on the hat tile.

https://youtube.com/shorts/_Rruxxrz9nY

foobarbecueOP1y ago

Interesting. I wonder why the five pentagons were needed. Is that because hat can't tile a sphere? Or some other requirement when assembling the ball?

gilleain1y ago

Well you cannot tile a sphere with just hexagons, you need a minimum of 5 pentagons.

Oh, from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fullerene:

"A closed fullerene with sphere-like shell must have at least some cycles that are pentagons or heptagons. More precisely, if all the faces have 5 or 6 sides, it follows from Euler's polyhedron formula, V−E+F=2 (where V, E, F are the numbers of vertices, edges, and faces), that V must be even, and that there must be exactly 12 pentagons and V/2−10 hexagons. "

So I'm not sure.

zokier1y ago

I would be really surprised if hat (or spectre) could tile sphere. Afaik most tilings of planes do not work on spheres.

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