On model flexibility of the Jessen orthogonal icosahedron
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instance of: scholarly article
title: On model flexibility of the Jessen orthogonal icosahedron
zbMATH Open document ID: 1383.52013
published in: Beiträge zur Algebra und Geometrie
publication date: 2016-08-25T00:00:00Z
review text: A polyhedron in the 3-dimensional space is called flexible, if it admits continuous deformation, so that the faces do not change, but dihedral edges between some faces do. (There are examples of flexible polyhedra.) However, physical models of some non-flexible polyhedra seem to behave as if they were flexible. They are called model flexors. The paper studies one such example, the Jessen icosahedron. The conclusion is that ``rather negligible variations of the lengths of the edges of the Jessen icosahexdron lead to significant variations of the spatial shapes''. The authors find a second phenomenon as well, where faces break into two along a straight line, where this line is extremely close to a boundary segment, deceiving a human observer. The authors suspect that similar explanations exist for all model flexors.
reviewed by: László A. Székely
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 52B10
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 52C25
zbMATH DE Number: 6619592
zbMATH Keywords: Jessen orthogonal icosahedron
zbMATH Keywords: Douady shaddock
zbMATH Keywords: flexible polyhedron
zbMATH Keywords: model flexor
zbMATH Keywords: linear flexion
author: Vasyl Gorkaviy
author: Dmytro Kalinin
MaRDI profile type: MaRDI publication profile
full work available at URL: s13366-016-0287-5
OpenAlex ID: W2314533710
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DOI: 10.1007/S13366-016-0287-5
description: scientific article; zbMATH DE number 6619592