Word: dodecahedron
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...Jingoism aside, we do not care to profile the Houses. We are not in the architecture business, and you probably already know that if you get Dunster, you’ll spend the next three years inside an irregular dodecahedron cell in Roger Porter’s attic. [1] We are in the people business. Just ask the dining hall workers to whom we give performance reviews after each brunch...
With the change, a host of names for the Quad have been suggested: Pillars, Complex, Center, Arc, Arch, Noah's Arc, Boylston and Hutch. I thought, given the new configuration, that Humanities Dodecahedron might work, and I made a call to someone in the math department this week to see if that would work spatially. They hung up, though...
...nothing but "what colors are and where you put them." If a visitor suggests that Davis' flat shapes seem to hang away from the wall and look very much like twelve-sided swimming pools, Davis will protest that all he meant to depict was "the illusion of a dodecahedron." What makes the dodecahedron distinctively different is that it is shown as though seen from far, far above. The effect is achieved by using "bird's-eye perspective," a method that relies on three vanishing points instead of one. Though long known, it was rarely used before the 20th...
...Last night New York was filled with the men who by day walk Mount Auburn Street. This morning the gentleman from Indiana and Westmorly, arm in arm with the class baby of 1911, will measure with his eye the cool quadrangles of Princeton, and to him they will be dodecahedron...
Members of Chemistry 2 are requested to hand in at the recitation tomorrow drawings of the cube, octahedron and dodecahedron, with a full explanation of the method of drawing written on the back of each. Length of the semi-axes, two inches...
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