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~ An Icosahedral Teapot #1 ~
This polyhedral shaped teapot was made by the mathematically aware artist David Warrington in the early 2000s. It is icosahedral in shape, the ten fold symmetry thought to be impossible in a physical crystal structure before the discovery of quasi-crystals in the early 1980s and the subsequent realisation that aperiodicity could occur in the “real world”. Appropriately, after such a momentous discovery, such teapots were given as research prizes at international mathematics and physics conferences on aperiodicity. This one was received as a prize at a conference in Liverpool in 2009.
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