John Brawley wrote: [quotes snipped] ... I'm not sure what you mean by "that ever-growing discrepancy in the outer regions of spherically-cored ... ...
... find ... I have yet to grasp the EGD(ever-growing-descrepancy), too. I thought as a linear dimension increases, area increases to the second power and...
... thought as a ... power and volume ... At the risk of repeating myself, is there some reason balls in a cluster can't be 12-neighbored as the number of...
... too. I ... second ... a ... why not. ... even a ... distortions," ... frustrating; I'll ... this ... you ... couple of ... attach new ... show whatever's ...
... 100% 12 ... 100% 20-tets ... remembered, but:) ... retain ... It is ironic that you, John Brawley, are arguing against the very thing you argued so...
... From: "Dick Fischbeck" <dick_fischbeck@...> ... That's a close guess; there is a problem distributing edge lengths, but know that in the programs...
[Resending this - I don't think the first copy will turn up as Yahoo had my my email address marked as bouncing] Hi John ... Can you define "as tightly packed...
... Why should that pack have been 12-valent? Why did you think that? ... That examination of that particular pack simply does not exclude the possibility of a...
... You seem to have a knack for conflating problems. Here you appear to be talking about the attempt to construct a large network in which each vertex is...
In the following dialog, John Brawley once again conflates problems. He talks about the problem of finding a large cluster of balls in which (excluding at the...
... From: "John Braley" <john.braley@...> ... good 1000-ball (was it 3000?) pack that *should* have been as 12-valent as the Pope is Catholic, but it...
'Tis not I, conflating the problems, but you, sir. A wireframe network as you describe is not directly equivalent to its ball-packing version. UNLESS a minimum...
Hi John ... This isn't clear. Do you mean that no ball can move? ... That was my point. You have to connect balls before discussing valency in a pack, and...
... this ... you ... couple of ... attach new ... John Brawley There seems to me to be a contratiction here. You just said in a more recent post, "As example,...
Here's a thought. If I had 5000 D4s, (http://www.alternative-armies.com/acatalog/59012.JPG) and I started sticking them together more or less face to face with...
Can a unit edge tetrahedron be sliced (in the manner Fuller forms the 2-F tetra) to form 1/2 frequency edges? Cutting a unit edge in half produces a 1/2 unit...
... Hi Jim; Yes, I think I have such dissection where from a 2-F Reg.tet. Cutting the unit edge in 1/2 produces 4 reg. tet. of 0-freuquency where in a core the...
... Subject: [synergeo] re:minimum foam ... (product number, not a .jpg; delete 59012.JPG and use the site's search engine with "D4" to find the tet-dice.) ......
... *prove* the damned ... You don't seem to be instructing anyone else how to conduct their business. Why single me out. It is up to me how to proceed with my...
... I don't understand your reasoning. You harp on the necessity of establishing a minimum edge length. If you are translating a ball pack to wireframe, the...
