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Isoptic surfaces of polyhedra

Metric Geometry 2015-10-28 v1

Abstract

The theory of the isoptic curves is widely studied in the Euclidean plane \bE2\bE^2 (see \cite{CMM91} and \cite{Wi} and the references given there). The analogous question was investigated by the authors in the hyperbolic \bH2\bH^2 and elliptic \cE2\cE^2 planes (see \cite{CsSz1}, \cite{CsSz2}, \cite{CsSz5}), but in the higher dimensional spaces there are only a few result in this topic. In \cite{CsSz4} we gave a natural extension of the notion of the isoptic curves to the nn-dimensional Euclidean space \bEn\bE^n (n3)(n\ge 3) which are called isoptic hypersurfaces. Now we develope an algorithm to determine the isoptic surface H\cP\mathcal{H}_{\cP} of a 33-dimensional polytop P\mathcal{P}. We will determine the isoptic surfaces for Platonic solids and for some semi-regular Archimedean polytopes and visualize them with Wolfram Mathematica.

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@article{arxiv.1510.07718,
  title  = {Isoptic surfaces of polyhedra},
  author = {Géza Csima and Jenő Szirmai},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1510.07718},
  year   = {2015}
}
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