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Dodecaplex: the puzzle from the fourth dimension!

2018-01-11

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Check out Dodecaplex on Maths Gear!

https://mathsgear.co.uk/products/dodecaplex-puzzle

Dodecaplex is based on the mathematics of Saul Schleimer and Henry Segerman.

Henry Segerman http://www.segerman.org/

Saul Schleimer http://homepages.warwick.ac.uk/~masgar/

You can read more about the maths behind Dodecaplex, and the wider family of Quintessence puzzles, in their paper “Puzzling the 120-cell”. https://arxiv.org/abs/1310.3549

As well as this puzzle, Henry has other amazing stuff on his Shapeways page.

https://www.shapeways.com/shops/henryseg

Watch my previous videos with Henry. All filmed during one mathematical journey to Edinburgh at the glorious Summerhall. The “Brilliant Geometry” one looks more at how 4D shapes are printed in 3D.

Exploring Hyperbolic Space with VR (and crochet)

/youtube/video/MTfviv_aZYI

Brilliant Geometry: a physical 3D zoetrope of a 4D cube

/youtube/video/LOVzytir7bM

CORRECTIONS

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Thanks to my Patreon supporters who made this series of videos with Henry possible. Here is a random subset:

Christopher A Samples

Morgan Phillips

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Mitchell Reid

Eric Sexton

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Audio mastering by Peter Doggart

Design by Simon Wright

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