If it doesn't work, you could always use analogs in higher dimensions as the Pentachoron or the Hexacosichoron. You'd just have to find a way to display them in a nice wayeuler wrote:Actually the team have been keeping quiet about this, but your question has forced a response. Although some time off yet we're working on a radical new proof surrounding the discovery of a sixth Platonic solid. Obviously we don't want to rush it, but we were planning to go public with it at the beginning of April next year.rmillika wrote:... as there are only five Platonic solids...
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How about going to other important somewhat symmetrical objects such as the Buckminsterfullerene?
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I think the sphere is the best idea.
Think of this: while the number of faces on Platonic solids increases, the solid itself is approaching a sphere.(at least I think...)
Think of this: while the number of faces on Platonic solids increases, the solid itself is approaching a sphere.(at least I think...)
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Kind of. The icosahedron seems more rounded, but oddly enough:uws8505 wrote:Think of this: while the number of faces on Platonic solids increases, the solid itself is approaching a sphere.(at least I think...)
I've always been partial to the Triacontahedron myself.wikipedia wrote:When a dodecahedron is inscribed in a sphere, it occupies more of the sphere's volume (66.49%) than an icosahedron inscribed in the same sphere (60.54%). (wikipedia)
Still, a sphere is good.
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As a triancontahedron seems to be a zonohedron the term "zonohedron" seems to me a nice and enigmatic enough epitheton for those that have solved 250+problems.

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You're a few decades late. Arvo and Kirk demonstrated the existence of the teapotahedron in 1987: http://design.osu.edu/carlson/history/i ... er.512.jpgAlthough some time off yet we're working on a radical new proof surrounding the discovery of a sixth Platonic solid.
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