A ghostly 2-skeleton



A ghostly 2-skeleton

I continue to play with sections of honeycombs, most recently sections of thickened 2-skeletons. So many avenues for exploration! For this picture, I took 500 frames from a video experiment, made each slightly translucent, and stacked them back-to-front. The animated frames are here: https://youtu.be/7c9ZAGcK6F0

Even though the sections were taken from the 2-skeleton, the 1-skeleton of the honeycomb jumps out. The image is a nice verification that the sections are correct. I'll leave it as an exercise to identify this particular honeycomb. Hint: it has two cell types.

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