From JeffDalton@playstring.com Fri Dec 21 00:29:14 2001 Received: from omta05.mta.everyone.net (sitemail2.everyone.net [216.200.145.36]) by mail.math.niu.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA11853 for ; Fri, 21 Dec 2001 00:29:13 -0600 (CST) Received: from sitemail.everyone.net (reports [216.200.145.62]) by omta05.mta.everyone.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59CFE48CF3 for ; Thu, 20 Dec 2001 22:29:13 -0800 (PST) Received: by sitemail.everyone.net (Postfix, from userid 99) id 3B62D3ED3; Thu, 20 Dec 2001 22:29:13 -0800 (PST) Content-Type: text/plain Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MIME-tools 5.41 (Entity 5.404) Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 22:29:13 -0800 (PST) From: jeffrey Dalton To: "rusin@vesuvius.math.niu.edu" Subject: Stumbled Onto Your Posting While Searching Polyhedra... Reply-To: JeffDalton@playstring.com X-Originating-Ip: [198.81.17.178] Message-Id: <20011221062913.3B62D3ED3@sitemail.everyone.net> Content-Length: 1236 Status: RO ...landing and landing on Geometry Junkyard... We created an art / construction medium we're calling PlayString (which came to me in a dream)... As a proof of concept we created polyhedron models using PlayString lengths, and our PlayString grooved connector system carved into the faces of geometric pieces... With the right chamfer we have been able to build all of the polyhedron (and feel that we could continue into the stellated polyhedron). http://www.playstring.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=CTGY&Store_Code=POS&Category_Code=playstring Also visit our front end at www.playstring.com Interested in what you think of PlayString as a math modeling tool, and curious as to whether or not you see any potential interest in the math associated with the grooved connector system. Also interested in what you think of it as a 3-D tessellations or 3-D tangram puzzle or game. We're just getting started and are interested in mathematicians take on the basic concept. Appreciate you taking the time to read my email request of your time. Sincerely, Jeff Dalton _____________________________________________________________ "Here. Take it. It's PlayString. It will help your creativity." http://www.playstring.com/