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Minimum number of distinct triangles for tesselating the sphere
Consider sequences of tesselations of the sphere. For instance, one such sequence might start with an icosahedron and proceed by subdividing each triangle face into 4 triangles and projecting the new ...
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Efficient topological triangulations of non-convex polyhedra
Does every polyhedron in $\mathbb{R}^3$ with $n$ triangular facets have a topological triangulation with complexity $O(n)$?
Suppose $P$ is a non-convex polyhedron in $\mathbb{R}^3$ with $n$ ...
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What is the difference between a simple polyhedron and a triangulated graph?
On a famous website I've seen the following:
The skeletons of the simple polyhedra correspond to the triangulated graphs, the smallest of which are illustrated above. That "illustration above&...