#Bead shapes and names pdf
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Strictly convex means that flat surfaces formed by polyhedrons don’t count as convex either – so a polyhedron that is essentially a cube with each square face split up into four smaller squares would not be strictly convex, since the larger square made from the four smaller ones would be flat. A convex polyhedron is one that has no “valleys” on it’s surface, like the truncated cube above. The Johnson solids are all the strictly convex, regular polyhedra that aren’t uniform. It’s a fun shape – I think it looks like it’s made of flowers!Īs well as the Archimedean solids it’s also now possible to make all the Johnson solids, and Diane Fitzgerald has set up a project to do just that! For example here’s a truncated cube – one of the Archimedean solids – made using triangles and octagons: The peyote octagon and decagon make it possible to bead a lot of polyhedra.

Whatever it’s called it’s definitely an odd little shape, but I like it! I think I’m going to start calling the other beadwork hyparhedra edge-hyparhedra (as they involves putting hypars over the edges), and Erik Demain’s original method face-hyparhedra (as it involves putting hypars over the faces of polyhedra).

Decided it was about time to finish it last summer! It’s quite similar to the Hypernova dodecahedron in some ways – both are what I’m going to call vertex-hyparhedra, because they are based on the idea of placing higher-order hypars over the vertices of a polyhedron. I started this about 2 years ago just before a move but it got left forgotten afterwards for most of that time. I also really like the colour of these green delicas – I don’t use green very often but glad I did this time! I was also very relieved that inclusion of a few matte delicas (the row of brown beads) did not result in disaster! I’m always a bit wary of matte beads since they seem to break very easily, but treated with a lot of care they worked out well. A rhombic dodecahedron has twelve diamond-shaped faces, so I knew it wouldn’t look completely symmetric and it’s interesting to see how it’s turned out! I wasn’t sure how well this was going to work, but I really like the way each face looks like a slightly folded square.

Here’s a fun shape – a rhombic dodecahedron made from warped hexagons and octagons.

#Bead shapes and names pdf

The pdf versions of the folding cube and gyroelongated square bipyramid kaleidocycle tutorials will also be available soon! The visualisations of these functions remind me of the shape of the rick rack dodecahedron.ĭid you know that the trefoil knot kaleidocycle is also a M öbius kaleidocycle? If you use a different colour for one edge of the band of tetrahedra you’ll see that it has a twist when you join the ends together to make the trefoil knot! Spherical Harmonics is the Rick Rack Dodecahedron – which finally has a name! Spherical harmonics are a type of function defined on the surface of a sphere which have many uses in maths and physics.

#Bead shapes and names free

The aim is to bring beaders together and inspire people to take up the craft! More details of everything that will be happening can be found on the IBW website.Īs a start I’ve been doing a bit of work creating pdf versions of the free tutorials here on my website! Hopefully this will make them easier to save and print. This year International Beading Week (IBW) takes place from the 25th July to 2nd August. I’m really pleased to say that I’m going to be an Ambassador for this year’s International Beading Week! I’m already planning beading activities and putting together some patterns and tutorials to share with everyone to celebrate the week!

Interlinked Tetrahedra Diagrams for Additional Colourways August 5, 2022.

Discontinued Delica Colours and The Saturn Box August 30, 2023.