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Symmetry: Culture and Science
Volume 32, Number 1, pages 059-081 (2021)
https://doi.org/10.26830/symmetry_2021_1_059

ON THE COMPLEXITY OF POLYHEDRON AGGREGATE STRUCTURES

Robert Earl Dewar*

* 11600 Bonanza Drive, Tehachapi, CA 93561, U.S.A.
E-mail: robertearldewar1@gmail.com

Abstract: Polyhedron aggregates that form space filling and other open structures, largely consists of regular and semi-regular geometric solids. But some aggregates that require deformations hint that there is a larger body of knowledge to be discovered. Deformable polyhedrons built with hypothetical particles in a computer simulation could open up this field of study to explorations of polyhedron aggregates with much greater complexity.

Keywords: polyhedra, particle system, force formula, virtual reality, haptic gloves.

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