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A New Solid of Constant Width

Posted 11 years ago
POSTED BY: Ed Pegg
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Posted 11 years ago

The unit distance graph generated by the caltrop is interesting. The 150 long diagonals all have unit length, but it's hard to tell what's going on. Here's a clearer picture.

Caltrop 76 unit diagonal graph

POSTED BY: Ed Pegg
Posted 11 years ago
POSTED BY: Ed Pegg

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Posted 11 years ago

In the above, I mentioned that I could bound a volume of 1/2 with 96 points, with no two points greater than 1 apart. The mysterious oleg567 managed to bound 1/2 with 86 points. That's much, much better than my best solution.

POSTED BY: Ed Pegg
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