You don't have to use gyroelongation

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Standard "they don't know" meme format, featuring line art of "That Feel Guy" wearing a party hat standing in a corner while other people are dancing. An image of an icosahedron formed by three mutually perpendicular golden ratio rectangles sits in front of That Feel Guy. The caption text says "They don't know that three mutually perpendicular golden ratio rectangles, with edges connecting their corners, form a regular icosahedron."

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/14733630

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Regular_icosahedron&oldid=1347333202#Construction

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I spent a good minute trying to work out how you could get 20 sides when theres only 4 edges per rectangle, 12 edges is not quite 20

Not my finest moment

for a minute you were one of this filthy casuals just dancing with no understanding of the geometry of planes and shapes.



Are they rotoated around the center or how are they positioned?

Mutually orthogonal is a mathy way of saying at right angles to each other. No rotation, think of putting the rectangles on the 3 planes of a 3-axed coordinate system.



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Gyroelongation sounds like a disease of a body part I don’t even have.

It’s called helicoptering and it’s a sacred dance!



That is so cool!!!

Is it? What financial value does this generate for the world economy? How can this be marketed?

Think before you speak.

I want to be clear, I enjoyed this sarcastically.

Unlikely that you were serious.


Damn it! I didn’t think about the stakeholders!

Although, with a lot of care, you could put a ribeye on this thing… does that count?

*starts scribbling in idea pad furiously under the table, whilst maintaining a blank and even composure*

No, that does not sound like a good idea. I would advise not telling anyone else about this.





???

Why?

Because the golden ratio is a rune, so magic.


maybe this helps? (via a comment in my previous post of this meme)



I did know this! I used this trick to model dodecahedrons and icosahedrons when I was really into making custom rubik’s style twisty puzzles


But I wanna use gyroelongation!

Didn’t tell me what to do!


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