Fwd: Planets Gather on May 5 and May 17, 2000

From: Tony Lance
Newsgroups: swnet.sci.astro,sci.space.policy
Subject: Re: Big Bertha Thing pin-wheel
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 17:19:41 +0100

Big Bertha Thing uniform
Cosmic Ray Series
Possible Real World System Constructs.
http://www.tonylance.talktalk.net/uniform.html
Access page to 714K ZIP file
Astrophysics net ring Access site
Newsgroup Reviews including alt.support.attn-deficit

Animated wire-frame Polyhedron display,
complete with duals and double precision
angles to the polygons. Also technical
program description and 75 pictures.

Just one thing, thats still outstanding.
This is a collection of PostScript files from
the Computing Science Technical Report series
of organization 1127 of AT&T Bell Laboratories
report Comp. Sci. Tech. Rep. No. 130
author Andrew Hume
title Exact Descriptions of Regular
and Semi-Regular Polyhedra and Their Duals
date November 1986
tm TM 11276-861022-09
type techreport

Just two programs ready to run.
1. kaleido.exe (MSDOS) 86KB (see Zip)
2. schwarz.exe (MSDOS) 27KB (see Zip)

Just one description of two programs,
that do just one thing, better than the next best thing.
uniform.pdf (Adobe) 676KB (see Zip)


NB (2008)
A computer program, called kaleido (cf. [Ha]) and
publicly available at ,
has been developed to compute the data of a uniform
polyhedron (and its dual)...

Kaleido is also capable of computing the vertex and
face coordinates and displaying a rotating wire-frame
image of each polyhedron.

Two quotes from following attribution:-
Uniform Solution for Uniform Polyhedra*
Zvi Har’El
Department of Mathematics
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Haifa 32000, Israel
E-Mail:

* In memoriam of my father, Gershon Har’El, who introduced me to
spatial structures.
Geometriae Dedicata 47: 57-110, 1993.


From: Tony Lance
Newsgroups: swnet.sci.astro,sci.space.policy
Subject: Re: Big Bertha Thing Extract
Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2007 15:16:54 +0100

Big Bertha Thing francis

To my brother-in-law Francis (RIP),
who I once called "as daft as a brush."
To his everlasting credit,
he replied "I know."

The greatest compliment,
my wife ever paid me,
was to say, that I did not hold a grudge.
Net surfers do not hold grudges,
but they are a bit short on victim support,
whichever side the victim comes from.

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wrote:

From: Tony Lance
Newsgroups: swnet.sci.astro,sci.space.policy
Subject: Big Bertha Thing redoubt
Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2007 18:28:32 +0100

Big Bertha Thing memoriam

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wrote:

> Hi Calvin,
> It is impolite to spam my mailbox. (see below for copy)
> Hi John,
> It is impolite to send full copy of my message to this thread.
> Hi there,
> For solution to off-topic thread see Antwerp below.
> Antwerp is a continuation message to this thread.
> Thank you,
> Tony Lance
>