Dihedral angles and orthogonal polyhedra
Computational Geometry
2013-12-25 v1
Abstract
Consider an orthogonal polyhedron, i.e., a polyhedron where (at least after a suitable rotation) all faces are perpendicular to a coordinate axis, and hence all edges are parallel to a coordinate axis. Clearly, any facial angle and any dihedral angle is a multiple of . In this note we explore the converse: if the facial and/or dihedral angles are all multiples of , is the polyhedron necessarily orthogonal? The case of facial angles was answered previously. In this note we show that if both the facial and dihedral angles are multiples of then the polyhedron is orthogonal (presuming connectivity), and we give examples to show that the condition for dihedral angles alone does not suffice.
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@article{arxiv.1312.6824,
title = {Dihedral angles and orthogonal polyhedra},
author = {Therese Biedl and Martin Derka and Stephen Kiazyk and Anna Lubiw and Hamide Vosoughpour},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1312.6824},
year = {2013}
}
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3 pages