Plotting Binary Icosahedral

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goz
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Plotting Binary Icosahedral

Postby goz » 28 May 2024, 08:41

Is there any easy way to access binary icosahedral. Same way of writing icosahedron()->VISUAL, I would love to plot binary icosahedron. I have tried to run:

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binary_icosahedron()->VISUAL;
I have also tried:

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SL(2,5)->VISUAL;
None of them worked. Then, I found that I can use:

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regular_600_cell()->VISUAL;
, but is this the only way for binary icosahedrals?

Is there any easy way of saving the plot via script? So far I have tried these but none of them worked for me:

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$ico->VISUAL->output("icosahedron.png");
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$ico->VISUAL->write_to_file("icosahedron.png");
but did not work

Thank you for your helps,
Cheers,

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joswig
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Re: Plotting Binary Icosahedral

Postby joswig » 28 May 2024, 10:03

I have no idea what the "binary icosahedron" should be; and so there is no standard polymake function for this. Please explain.

As far as saving files from a visualization is concerned, please consult our tutorial.

goz
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Re: Plotting Binary Icosahedral

Postby goz » 29 May 2024, 03:13

I have no idea what the "binary icosahedron" should be; and so there is no standard polymake function for this. Please explain.

As far as saving files from a visualization is concerned, please consult our tutorial.
The group SL(2, 5) does not have a faithful 3-dimensional real representation. Thus it does not act as a group of symmetries of a 3-dimensional object such as an icosahedron.

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Re: Plotting Binary Icosahedral

Postby joswig » 29 May 2024, 11:54

The group SL(2, 5) does not have a faithful 3-dimensional real representation. Thus it does not act as a group of symmetries of a 3-dimensional object such as an icosahedron.
But then, what exactly do you expect polymake to do for you?


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