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One of the suggestions was as a mounting point for metal or wooden poles. This suggested, to me at least use as a joint for scaffolding. The holes of differing
by detrites 3y ago
One of the suggestions was as a mounting point for metal or wooden poles. This suggested, to me at least use as a joint for scaffolding. The holes of differing sizes accommodating pole diameters suited to each purpose for a given scaffold.
On the outside the protrusions could have been used for tying ropes that secure the joint to the pole. Could have been very strong if also threaded inside the dodecahedrons as well. All reusable and modular. Alright, may be a total fantasy though.
The thing that nullifies this as an idea for me is it would be expected therefore to find absolutely thousands of them. I don't know enough about it, but I got the impression it's much less than that, and it'd seem brass would last better.
- Jarmsy 3y agoRegular dodecahedra don't tile space, so these wouldn't make much sense as scaffold nodes. For regular space frames with identical nodes, truncated octahedra are more useful.
- arbitrage 3y agoUtterly straight-forward and to-the-point insight. I find your argument really compelling.
- swayvil 3y agoAside from cubes, what regular polyhedra can you tile space with? --nvrmnd. Apparently there's only 1. Cube
- lstodd 3y agoI find rhombic dodecahedra fascinating. Even made a couple dozen from cardboard to play with.
- detrites 3y agoNow that makes a lot of sense. Though, makes me wonder - what about when constructing domes?
- arbitrage 3y agoI would also suspect that, if they were used for building purposes, some of these artifacts would be found in situ with poles still inserted into or through them, thus being evidence of their use and removing all ambiguity. As there is only ambiguity in the analysis of these, according to the article, then my conclusion is that no dodecahedrons have been recovered showing evidence of being used like this.