Thursday, October 9, 2008

Schlegel and the 600 cell

I just wrote a patch to do Schlegel diagrams (a sort of projection) of 4D polytopes in Sage. The 4D regular polytopes are an awful lot of fun to think about; below is a picture of the 600 cell as rendered by my new code. Its much more fun to play with it interactively - check it out.

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