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Humanity Star X

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Humanity Star X

Why Giant Orbiting Disco Ball
High flyer space billboard at Beck’s call
The great envy
G O D B
We will wait bored till thy fireball fall

Alan Grace
5 February 2018

Is Beck G O D A? If so, what does the “A” stand for? A-hole perhaps? Whaddyathink?

See:
https://aaamazingphoenix.wordpress.com/tag/space/
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11986005

See NZ Herald on Sunday, Sunday 4 February 2018, P29

Paul Little: Disco ball in space may be in a flying billboard, but it’s fun

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Humanity Star IX

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Humanity Star IX

Lo tho sheeny orb I sympathize
O heart desires no deceit or lies
Low half rotate please
Thirty six degrees
Dirty creation logic defies

Alan Grace
4 February 2018

Daily prompt: Sympathize

See: https://aaamazingphoenix.wordpress.com/tag/space/

It looks like someone has bungled making the Humanity Star.

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It appears that one half (top or bottom) of the Humanity Star needs to be rotated 36 degrees (one tenth of a circle) to maintain all aesthetic symmetry (ie. based on true icosidodecahedron). The bottom half should ideally not be a mirror image of the top half. Also see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentakis_icosidodecahedron

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The two halves should look like this (the bottom half should not be a mirror image of the top half):

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Humanity Star VII

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Humanity Star VII

O Humanity star freed of your mirror sheen
You cannot be afar best beauty ever seen
I can see your shining face
Flashing shouting out in space
You can fit the fate of test thought rather obscene

Alan Grace
2 February 2018

My posts and comments on the humanity star have been quite profuse.

See: https://aaamazingphoenix.wordpress.com/tag/space/

Daily prompt:  Profuse

I have an interest in 3D printing.

I have developed a model of the Humanity star (two halves to be put together) using Tinkercad. Fortunately our local libraries provide access to a 3D printer. We are only charged $1 per metre for the plastic (melted to make a model).

Much effect is lost without the mirror finish.

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Some images of my model are below.

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Below is an interior view:

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