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A sphere is bad, it rolls away. The shape from the article would be better, but it is too hard to manufacture. And weighting is cheating anyway. The best option

A sphere is bad, it rolls away. The shape from the article would be better, but it is too hard to manufacture. And weighting is cheating anyway. The best option for a D1 is probably the gömböc, which is mentioned in the article.

shalmanese 1y ago
Technically, a gomboc is a D1.00…001.
- cubefox 1y ago
  Any normal die could also land on an edge.
  - layer8 1y ago
    It’s infinitely unlikely to do so, a set of measure zero.
    - cubefox 1y ago
      Just as with the gömböc. Though the latter balances on only one unstable axis while a D6 die does so on 20 (12 edges and 8 vertices).
      - Y_Y 1y ago
        Vertices aren't axes! They have the wrong dimensionality.
        cubefox 1y ago
        Let's instead call the balance things in question "balance things".
        Y_Y 1y ago
        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Level_set https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Level_set