Gerard Westendorp on Nostr: npub1knzsu…ac73p challenged me to find a generalized buckyball in which you are ...
npub1knzsux7p6lzwzdedp3m8c3c92z0swzc0xyy5glvse58txj5e9ztqpac73p (npub1knz…c73p) challenged me to find a generalized buckyball in which you are forced to fold on a line other than the triangular grid line.
I tried to make the simplest case that is not the icosahedron. I intended it to have just 1 hexagon. But it turned out I made the hexagonal antiprism, which has 2 hexagons!
The thing is, I can't seem to make a case with only 1 hexagon. It would not violate the Euler characteristic being 2, that always works as long as there are 12 5-nodes. So there must be other restrictions.
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