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> no face of P, nor any face of one of the Ti, contains vertices of all three colors That should be 'edge', not 'face', no? Otherwise I do not understand what
by prof-dr-ir 1y ago
> no face of P, nor any face of one of the Ti, contains vertices of all three colors
That should be 'edge', not 'face', no? Otherwise I do not understand what is happening at all with the examples.
- erooke 1y agoPretty sure they meant the word face, that would be the generic term for edge. (An edge being a 1 dimensional face)
- dmurray 1y agoYes, this would more normally be called "edge". It's not incorrect to call it a face, by analogy with higher-dimensional solids, but confusing.
- FabHK 1y agoMaybe they called it "face" and not "edge" because an edge is normally understood to be what's between two vertices (of a graph; so an edge has two vertices, beginning and end), while here "face" is what's between two corners of a given triangle (so a face can contain more than two vertices, and so multiple edges). See the bottom "face" of the top centre triangle in the 4 examples.
- hswanson 1y agoYeah, that's exactly it! "Face" is the term used in the original paper, so that's what I was using. I've updated the page to make the distinction clearer. Thanks!
- drewcoo 1y agoThey're dealing with planar graphs, graphs embedded in planes. Faces are not edges. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planar_graph#Euler's_formula https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planar_graph#Euler's_formula