The video of the week is an animation by Stephan Klaus made with the SURFER program. Stephan found a formula which describes different polyhedrons for certain values of a and b. -1-1000a^8+(ax+by+z)^16+(-ax+by+z)^16+(x+ay+bz)^16+(x-ay+bz)^16+(bx+y+az)^16+(bx+y-az)^16=0 Find out which values result in a cube, an octahedron and even a dodecahedron - it is amazing! Just copy the formula in the SURFER program and play with the parameters. You can download it here: imaginary.org/program/surfer Share the values of a and b with us in the comments. Stephan Klaus is professor of topology and works at the Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach.
Posted on: Fri, 24 Oct 2014 07:55:21 +0000
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