#truncation

[knotty-et-al]

Truncated dodecahedron

By cutting off the vertices of the dodecahedron you get the truncated dodecahedron.

This results in the 12 pentagonal faces of the dodecahedron turning into 12 dekagonal (10-gonal) and 20 triangular faces.

(As the dodecahedron has 20 vertices, truncation results in 20 triangular faces.)

[notreallyherehahaha]

Truncating the Rhombic Triacontahedron

Truncating the Rhombic Triacontahedron

This is the rhombic triacontahedron, one of the Catalan solids. Now here’s the same polyhedron, but with the three-valent vertices truncated, exposing twenty triangular faces. Here’s what it looks like with only the twelve five-valent vertices truncated. Finally, here’s the fully truncated rhombic triacontahedron. I created these polyhedra using Stella 4d, a program you can try for free right…

[lucabyte]

"So what's the weirdest possible first (second) impression Loop could make on the party in postcanon?" "Yeah, that, probably."

+ Bonus

theyre just standing there in direct party order while this happens. normal tuesday.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

I'm a doctor, not a miracle worker.

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[hedgehog-moss]

I was reading a book of musical anecdotes written by un pernicieux rosbif an Englishman not very long after the last Napoleonic Wars and you can tell relations between our two countries were still somewhat tense 😔

At one point he goes on and on for a whole page about how gorgeous the Paris Opera is, "sumptuous", "magnificent", the interior décor is "one of the finest in the world", "a chandelier of the grandest order", and the painted ceiling!, and the blue velvet in the boxes!, and you're like "he's saying nice things? about us? 🥺" — then he concludes with:

"the opera in Paris is top-tier in every respect except if you want to listen to good opera"

[mothcpu]

updated sona reference! (he/him)

[best-shapes]

Regular-ish Convex Polyhedra Bracket — Round 5 (Finals)

Propaganda

Truncated Icosidodecahedron:

Also called the Rhombitruncated Icosidodecahedron, Great Rhombicosidodecahedron, Omnitruncated Dodecahedron, Omnituncated Icosahedron

Archimedean Solid

Semiregular

Dual of the Disdyakis Triacontahedron

It has 12 regular decagonal faces, 20 regular hexagonal faces, 30 square faces, 180 edges, and 120 vertices.

It has the most edges and vertices of all platonic and archimedean solids.

Of the vertex-transitive polyhedra, it fills up the most of the volume of the sphere it fits in (89.80%).

It is not actually the shape you get when you truncate an icosidodecahedron, although it is topologically equivalent.

It is the mod's favorite three-dimensional shape.

They made a void truncated icosidodecahedron and it's glorious. I had one for a while, it's hard to turn because of alignment issues, especially the decagonal sides. Fun puzzle tho, never did figure out how to permute the last layer...

Image Credit: @anonymous-leemur

Regular Icosahedron:

Platonic Solid

Regular

Dual of the Regular Dodecahedron

It has 20 regular triangular faces, 30 edges, and 12 vertices.

Image Credit: @etirabys

[knotty-et-al]

Truncations of the cube

This is what I have done with my spare shape drawings...

Depicted are different truncations of the cube - and the cube itself.

The polyhedra are (from left to right and from top to bottom)

- Cube

- Truncated cube (Cube's vertices get cut off to one third of each edge.)

- Cuboctahedron (Cube's vertices get cut off to a half of each edge.)

- Rhombicuboctahedron (Cuboctahedron's vertices get cut off to a half of each edge.)

Truncated Cuboctahedron (Cuboctahedron's vertices get cut off to a third of each edge.)

[comment-tube]

[notreallyherehahaha]

Truncating the Rhombic Dodecahedron

Truncating the Rhombic Dodecahedron

This is the rhombic dodecahedron, one of the Catalan solids. Now here’s the same polyhedron, but with the three-valent vertices truncated, exposing eight triangular faces. Here’s what it looks like with only the four-valent vertices truncated. Finally, here’s the fully truncated rhombic dodecahedron. I created these polyhedra using Stella 4d, a program you can try for free right here.

[erisenyo]

FANDOM TRUMPS HATE: ATLA OFFERINGS ARE FINALLY HERE!

The listings are posted, ATLA made the top 10 most represented fandoms this year (lets gooo!) and the browsing period is Officially Open, with bidding beginning Monday!! (March 5-9)

And there are some truly amazing offerings for this year's @fandomtrumpshate charity auction. Click their names below to check them out!!

Offering fan labor...

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flowerparrish (works here) offering a 5K podfic! (up to M)

Ariel (@edas-boytoy, works here) offering betaing for 20-50K words AND 5-10K words of Portuguese translation (rated up to E)

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Find the fanfic and fanart listings here! We had so many offerings I had to break it into two posts! So many amazing creators and offerings, and just in time for a renaissance, right? :P

(And if you're not in the ATLA mood--there are SO many fandoms represented in the event, I bet your current hyperfixation is in there :))

[wanderingandfound]

New profile picture! The Tumblr-style truncated icosidodecahedra were made by @anonymous-leemur, and I recolored them using @arokill‘s recolor of Gilbert Baker’s nine-stripe Pride flag.

[littleladymab]

Out of Context Wip Poll

Thank you to @galauvant for tagging me! You can find hers over here, if you want to vote ;)

Rules: Pick a bunch of your WIPs and summarize them as badly as possible, then ask your followers to vote on which one they'd be most likely to read. Multiple/all/none options are completely optional.

i have more but honestly i can't figure out how to summarize them LMAO also there is ONE fic in here but i'm debating if i want to scrub off the serials and make it an original project

feel free to ask me about any of them ;)

Also i get to use my writing tag list for the first time so y'all can vote 🤗 please feel free to do this if you would like to!! @bottlingsound, @krisseycrystal, @rkmoon, @jadeoxfordrose, @sentfromwolves, @ybotter, @luukeskywalker, @scribble-dee-vee, @mysticstarlightduck (and a general open tag, since this works for OCs or fic!) (if you would like to be tagged on future writing memes, please feel free to comment here or send an ask!)

[leupagus]

I know I've been yelling about this for the past three days but guys this is where Inspector Finch shows up and it's some goddamn Romeo and Juliet bullshit complete with romantic strings, what the FUCK was I supposed to think.

[essektheylyss]

She doesn’t deserve it—none of them do, of course, but she’s the first one who turns, so she’s the one he has to worry about.

He’s not thinking about it though. He didn’t think back in the war, he sure as hell didn’t think when the lieutenant yelled at him to move in the path of an oncoming train, and he’s not thinking now.

But he is regarding her, like an animal regards prey—analyzing for weakness, and she’s got plenty of them—that nasty looking mass of tissue all the way up her back, between the hanging fringe of her jacket that she’s been gingerly holding together since the minefield, preserving what she’s got left of her dignity.

He doesn’t begrudge it of her. He’s glad, actually. Glad that she’s got some left to hold onto, because that is something she does deserve.

And glad that the fraying remnants keep most of the fresh wound obscured, the bloody pink mass of flesh that was sometimes all that was left of the guys that got marched into her tent, back in the day.

The hand, too, holding the pistol—her fingers aren’t shaking, still maintaining a surgeon’s precision, but her elbow trembles, probably from the way the pain from a spinal injury reverberates down the nerves at the slightest movement.

Mostly, though, he regards her eyes, narrowed and exacting. There’s not a question in her mind—not the way he follows orders, blindly and unflinchingly, but the way a good doctor doesn’t need somebody on their operating table to have paper skin to know where exactly to find the artery, the bone, the best place to make an incision, and the doc is good, the best.

And behind her, at eye level, Marion with those big puppy eyes, following her the way Sean follows LT. A split second after she knows, he knows, and Sean’s outnumbered.

Neither of them deserve it, but he’s got orders to follow, and “deserve”’s really got nothing to do with it.

She’s weak though; she can’t take much more. LT, Auntie Bea, he could probably knock out, but the moment she takes a blow to the head she’s gonna be on the ground and it’s gonna take way too long for her to go.

One shot, clean. That’s the least he can do. It’s also the most he can do, under the circumstances.

He doesn’t have the time to explain that though, that he’s making this as neat as he can, and he’s not sure she’d understand anyway—keeping Ma safe, sure, she’d get that, but Jean doesn’t really have the kind of skillset that requires hurting somebody to save somebody else. Surgery is messy and there’s not always enough drugs to go around, so it hurts, sure, but in theory the point is to stop the hurt.

He’s not a healer, and the kinds of things he’s gotta contend with can’t be stitched up clean.

A head shot’s about as clean as it gets with a shotgun.

Hopefully once she’s down, LT will come running, and Marion will stay right where he is, catch her body. Marion can’t take him, in the state he’s in, but LT might manage it.

He doesn’t have the time to say I’m sorry, but he wouldn’t mean it, really. He’s just doing what he’s always done, following orders.

A lot of the time folks get medals for that, just like Tony.