Platonic Compounds of Cylinders
Metric Geometry
2019-04-04 v1 Mathematical Physics
math.MP
Abstract
Generalizing the octahedral configuration of six congruent cylinders touching the unit sphere, we exhibit configurations of congruent cylinders associated to a pair of dual Platonic bodies.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1904.02043,
title = {Platonic Compounds of Cylinders},
author = {Oleg Ogievetsky and Senya Shlosman},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1904.02043},
year = {2019}
}