polyhedron with a circumscribed sphere, all faces have circumscribed circles, the circles where the plane of the face meets the circumscribed sphere. Descartes...
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definitions for the 'inspheres' of their polyhedra. Circumscribed sphere Inscribed circle Midsphere Sphere packing Coxeter, H.S.M. Regular Polytopes 3rd Edn...
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O(sn)} . Bounding volume Circumscribed sphere, circumscribed circle Larsson, Thomas (2008), "Fast and tight fitting bounding spheres", SIGRAD 2008: The Annual...
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term may refer to its circumradius, the radius of its circumscribed circle or circumscribed sphere. In either case, the radius may be more than half the...
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order. For each solid Euclid finds the ratio of the diameter of the circumscribed sphere to the edge length. In Proposition 18 he argues that there are no...
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Cube (section Relation to the spheres)
the sphere tangent to the edges of a cube, with radius 2 2 a {\textstyle {\frac {\sqrt {2}}{2}}a} . The circumscribed sphere of a cube is the sphere tangent...
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circumcircles of all triangles have empty interiors. By considering circumscribed spheres, the notion of Delaunay triangulation extends to three and higher...
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Tetrahedron (redirect from Twelve-point sphere)
For any tetrahedron there exists a sphere (called the circumsphere) on which all four vertices lie, and another sphere (the insphere) tangent to the tetrahedron's...
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the property that it is the symmetric point of the center of the circumscribed sphere with respect to the centroid. Hence the orthocenter coincides with...
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volume between the sphere and the circumscribed cylinder of that sphere (having the height and diameter equal to the diameter of the sphere). This may be proved...
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order. For each solid, Euclid finds the ratio of the diameter of the circumscribed sphere to the edge length. In Proposition 18 he argues that there are no...
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Platonic solids and solved the problem of finding the ratio of the circumscribed sphere's diameter to the edge length. Following their identification with...
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Midsphere (category Spheres)
the radius of the inscribed sphere, 1 2 {\textstyle {\frac {1}{2}}} , and smaller than the radius of the circumscribed sphere, 3 2 {\textstyle {\frac {\sqrt...
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circumscribed parallelepiped is right-angled. We also have that a tetrahedron is a disphenoid if and only if the center in the circumscribed sphere and...
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Circumcircle (redirect from Triangle Circumscribing)
In geometry, the circumscribed circle or circumcircle of a triangle is a circle that passes through all three vertices. The center of this circle is called...
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On the Sphere and Cylinder (Greek: Περὶ σφαίρας καὶ κυλίνδρου) is a treatise that was published by Archimedes in two volumes c. 225 BCE. It most notably...
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Measuring angles directly to the surface of the ellipsoid, not to the circumscribed sphere, [ x y z ] = R [ cos γ cos λ cos γ sin λ sin γ ] {\displaystyle...
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a sphere centered on this point, as in the Dorman Luke construction (mentioned below). Failing that, for a polyhedron with a circumscribed sphere, inscribed...
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radius of a circumscribed sphere r u {\displaystyle r_{u}} (one that touches the octahedron at all vertices), the radius of an inscribed sphere r i {\displaystyle...
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surface and extending this line on one side so that it intersects the circumscribed sphere at C; then B divides AC according to the golden section. This construction...
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looks like one from outside. A Kepler–Poinsot polyhedron covers its circumscribed sphere more than once, with the centers of faces acting as winding points...
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midpoint between its Monge point and circumcenter (center of the circumscribed sphere). These three points define the Euler line of the tetrahedron that...
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polyhedron and projecting the resulting points and lines onto the circumscribed sphere. In the case of the tetrahedron, there are four faces and each face...
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right angles. The midpoint of the longest edge is the center of the circumscribed sphere. The case when | v 0 v 1 | = | v 1 v 2 | = ⋯ = | v d − 1 v d | {\displaystyle...
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its own nature and special aim. There is therefore, as it were a circumscribed sphere in which each exercises its functions jure proprio". And in the Encyclical...
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Steinitz's theorem (section Tangent spheres)
Thurston. The problem of characterizing polyhedra with inscribed or circumscribed spheres, eventually solved using a method based on circle packing realizations...
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Cylinder (section On the Sphere and Cylinder)
a sphere by exploiting the relationship between a sphere and its circumscribed right circular cylinder of the same height and diameter. The sphere has...
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same thing as "figure G is circumscribed about figure F". A circle or ellipse inscribed in a convex polygon (or a sphere or ellipsoid inscribed in a...
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Ideal polyhedron (category Spheres)
be represented in Euclidean geometry with all its vertices on a circumscribed sphere. Using linear programming, it is possible to test whether a polyhedron...
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JSTOR 3615957. Apostol, Tom M.; Mnatsakanian, Mamikon A. (2006). "Solids circumscribing spheres" (PDF). American Mathematical Monthly. 113 (6): 521–540. doi:10...
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