The roundest polyhedra with symmetry constraints

DOI10.3390/SYM9030041MaRDI QIDQ2333481zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors András Lengyel, Zsolt Gáspár, Tibor Tarnai

Publication date 13 November 2019

Published in Symmetry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.3390/sym9030041

zbMATH Keywords

isoperimetric problempoint group symmetrypolyhedra

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Polyhedra and polytopes; regular figures, division of spaces (51M20) Numerical aspects of computer graphics, image analysis, and computational geometry (65D18)

Review text

Summary: Amongst the convex polyhedra with \(n\) faces circumscribed about the unit sphere, which has the minimum surface area? This is the isoperimetric problem in discrete geometry which is addressed in this study. The solution of this problem represents the closest approximation of the sphere, i.e., the roundest polyhedra. A new numerical optimization method developed previously by the authors has been applied to optimize polyhedra to best approximate a sphere if tetrahedral, octahedral, or icosahedral symmetry constraints are applied. In addition to evidence provided for various cases of face numbers, potentially optimal polyhedra are also shown for \(n\) up to 132.

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