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Word: icosahedron (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...finished painting Designer Fuller with a background that includes Fuller's radome, Dymaxion Car, tensegrity octahedron, an example of energetic-synergetic geometry, the 4D apartment house, a Dymaxion mobile laboratory, a demonstration of the omniequilateral, omnitriangulated finite system, and the 15 axes interconnecting opposite mid-points of the icosahedron's 30 edges. But all this, being very Artzybasheffesque, was topped by the opportunity to do Fuller's head in the pattern of his most successful invention-the geodesic dome. "It was," said Boris, "a simple, wonderful challenge of breaking up his head like that and still have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher: Jan. 10, 1964 | 1/10/1964 | See Source »

...stated that an icosahedron is a two-sided solid figure [Oct. 25]. Shape up, sir! It's really a 20-sided solid figure. However, we may be wrong because "there are icosahedrons to every story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 8, 1963 | 11/8/1963 | See Source »

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