Equiprojective polyhedra

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Short description: Convex polyhedron property

In mathematics, a convex polyhedron is defined to be k-equiprojective if every orthogonal projection of the polygon onto a plane, in a direction not parallel to a face of the polyhedron, forms a k-gon. For example, a cube is 6-equiprojective: every projection not parallel to a face forms a hexagon, More generally, every prism over a convex k is (k+2)-equiprojective.[1][2] Zonohedra are also equiprojective.[3] Hasan and his colleagues later found more equiprojective polyhedra by truncating equally the tetrahedron and three other Johnson solids.[4]

(Hasan Lubiw) shows there is an O(nlogn) time algorithm to determine whether a given polyhedron is equiprojective.[5]

References

  1. Shephard, G. C. (1968). "Twenty Problems on Convex Polyhedra: Part I". The Mathematical Gazette 52 (380): 136–147. doi:10.2307/3612678.  See Problem IX.
  2. Croft, Hallard; Falconer, Kenneth; Guy, Richard (1991). Unsolved Problems in Geometry: Unsolved Problems in Intuitive Mathematics. pp. 60. doi:10.1007/978-1-4612-0963-8. ISBN 978-1-4612-0963-8. https://books.google.com/books?id=rdDTBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA60. 
  3. Buffière, Thèophile (2023). "Many equiprojective polytopes". arXiv:2307.11366 [math.MG].
  4. Hasan, Masud; Hossain, Mohammad Monoar; Lopez-Ortiz, Alejandro; Nusrat, Sabrina; Quader, Saad Altaful; Rahman, Nabila (2010). "Some New Equiprojective Polyhedra∗". arXiv:1009.2252 [cs.CG].
  5. Hasan, Masud Hasan; Lubiw, Anna (2008). "Equiprojective polyhedra". Computational Geometry 40 (2): 148–155. doi:10.1016/j.comgeo.2007.05.002.