Tuesday, October 21, 2014

Platonic Solids

I think my next tattoo may involve the Platonic solids, see this cool link:

http://puncturedartefact.wordpress.com/2013/10/13/symbolism-the-platonic-solids-tattoo-design-and-culture/ 

 Here is a sample from the website above:


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And of course there are connections between the Platonic Solids and the Golden Ratio:
http://www.maths.surrey.ac.uk/hosted-sites/R.Knott/Fibonacci/phi3DGeom.html
http://jwilson.coe.uga.edu/emat6680/parveen/platonic_solids.htm

Numberphile youtube video on the Platonic Solids: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVzu1_12FUc

Platonic Solids and cosmology:

http://www.kheper.net/topics/cosmology/solids.html

This website includes a photo of stone models of the solids that are dated to be 10 centuries before the Greeks.  Wow.













stone models of the platonic solids