Tuesday, 19 October 2010

How can Nets be interesting...

When deciding on a product range, how can I create something that people WANT to buy, WANT to use. We'v all seen and bought charitable items in the past, ribbons, badges. But what can I do that could set QS apart in this project.

Started looking at more nets and came across this, the Truncated icosahedron. The net for a football!

So my idea was, think of each hex on the ball having a quicksilver design an being made up to create this funky looking aunamental object (possibly a lamp shade?)

This could be sold as a flat poster which could still look effective if not built. The user would buy this knowing that the sheet has some further purpose, interactive.







Related polyhedra

It shares its vertex arrangement with the truncated great dodecahedron and the uniform compounds of 6 or 12 pentagonal prisms. It additionally shares its edge arrangement with the nonconvex great rhombicosidodecahedron (having the triangular and pentagrammic faces in common), and with the great rhombidodecahedron (having the decagrammic faces in common).

Uniform great rhombicosidodecahedron.png
Nonconvex great rhombicosidodecahedron
Great dodecicosidodecahedron.png
Great dodecicosidodecahedron
Great rhombidodecahedron.png
Great rhombidodecahedron
Great truncated dodecahedron.png
Truncated great dodecahedron
UC34-6 pentagonal prisms.png
Compound of six pentagonal prisms
UC35-12 pentagonal prisms.png
Compound of twelve pentagonal prisms

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