Polyhedra, I Choose You! Letting Your Passions Take Form
summary
Aiming to turn obscure geometry into a usable resource, the project builds an interactive web app that renders, transforms and animates real polyhedra using D3-style data binding and x3dom, migrates into React for reactivity, and models topology with a doubly connected edge list so operations like rectify interpolate by duplicating and remapping vertices. The implementation relies on a hard list of canonical forms (only 13 Archimedean solids), ships a mobile-friendly periodic table of shapes, and clearly works — educators, journalists and kids start using it.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00Start
- 4:13Attempt 4: Code!
- 4:35Can I work on frontend stuff?
- 6:04Polyhedra Viewer vi
- 14:38Calculate the centroid of a face.
- 15:46Doubly Connected Edge List (DCEL)
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