Hammersley Sofa
The moving sofa problem asks: what is the shape of largest area that can be maneuvered through an L-shaped hallway of width 1? This animated image made by Claudio Rocchini shows one attempt to solve this problem.
The moving sofa problem asks: what is the shape of largest area that can be maneuvered through an L-shaped hallway of width 1? This animated image made by Claudio Rocchini shows one attempt to solve this problem.
The icosidodecahedron can be built by truncating either an icosahedron or a dodecahedron. It has 30 vertices. It is a beautiful, highly symmetrical shape. But it’s just a shadow of an even more symmetrical shape with twice as many vertices in twice as many dimensions!
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