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How many ways can you join regular pentagons?

2023-07-07

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Curved-Crease Sculptures by Erik Demaine and Martin Demaine

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The original paper: "A Complete List of All Convex Polyhedra Made by Gluing Regular Pentagons" https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.01753

Get your hexagon equivalent here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.02052

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https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.07540

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Filming and editing by Alex Genn-Bash

Written and performed by Matt Parker

Produced by Nicole Jacobus

Music by Howard Carter

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