modular pie-cosahedron
intromodular pie-cosahedron
constructing a pie with the topology of a sphere from 20 triangular
sub-pie modules attached with amazing magnets.
step 1layout and cut the pieces
we needed 20 equilateral triangles. choosing an altitude of 12 inches let us easily lay out two strips of them on a 24x48 inch sheet of 24 gauge steel. in order to get th…
step 2fold and rivet the sides
folding the pans was greatly simplified by a 18inch bending brake. when you have to repeat some step 3*20 times, it's definitely worth setting up the appropriate jig. her…
step 3attach magnets
at this point, we thought it was time to glue the magnets on. we wanted to use 6 magnets (aquired from amazingmagnets.com) to join each edge. interestingly enough, if you…
step 4baking a test pie
it was time to bake a test pie. the doubters needed to know for sure that the pie would stand up to inversion. the answer was that, "yes it did". more importantly, the e…
step 5baking 19 more pies
gathering ingredients to make 20x pecan pies is still exciting, even after all these years. we used the recipe on the back of the karo bottle and added 1.5 tablespoons of …
step 6re-epoxy magnets
once the pies were cool, we re-attached the magnets. it is a little hard to describe accurately the sensation of wrestling with magnets that are incredibly small, incredib…
step 7assemble pie and enjoy
we wrapped each sub-pie-assembly in saran wrap to make it easier to transport and put together. the saran wrap was cut off once the pies were in place and ready to be serve…
| Nov 24, 2008. 11:32 AM canida
says:
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| what happens when u wwant to eat it?
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| Calling all geeks and pie lovers!!!!!
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| I'd just like to say - and I'm not one to exaggerate - but you,
sir/madam, are a GOD. That's right, I've said it...you are clearly a
minor deity at least of the juncture of geometry and pie. Geopastry,
maybe. Nevermind the figuring-out-how-to-do-it, the sheer audacity of
the idea
merits you applause!
*erects a small shrine to Geopastronus, God of Pie and Angles (tm)*
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| Surely you mean....*waits for the drum-roll*
Pie-angles?
:OD
~adamvan2000
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| :OD <-------has a big nose!!!
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| Or if you tilt your head to the right it's Homer Simpson!
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You have way too much time on your hands. Wish I had time to play like that.
Enjoy it while you can.
Looks like a fun project - Great job!
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| PIE is exactly 3!
Sorry, had to get the fat nerds attention away from the buffet table
and back to the conference table.
Now, let's try to divide the pie by PI.
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| PIE divided by Pi is 0.95492965855137201461330258023509blahblahblah
Seems the nerd baiting worked :P
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| This made me rofl. Brilliant :)
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| pie and math, i dont like either but anyways this is great, and a great
idea too
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| you don't like pie??? How could you?!?!?! I'm taking that as a
personal insult!!! (JK)
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| Did you just make a D20 pie??!?!?!?!
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| May 19, 2009. 10:39 AMREA
says:
this would be great for a huge D&D party!
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| The ultimate in gamer food. I just failed my save vs. hunger. :)
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| Apr 14, 2009. 1:55 PMThekal
says:
Your ONE triangle away from a FULL trio of triforces..
power
courage
wisdom
...fail.
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| The awesomeness of this has left me speechless.
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| Step 2: Nice T-shirt, dude! I can't quite tell if it's supposed to be vacuum corrections to e-e scattering, or Drell-Yan. Either way, sweet...
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| Truly, truly hilarious. I wonder just how many crackpots have already posted their theories about bees navigating via quantum entanglement :-/
BTW, I see that your "Berkeley" location is now UCI. Congrats on the faculty position! I didn't know Irvine was that open to cross-disciplinary work (artificial vision and Drosophila epigenetic atlases; quite the mix).
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| WHAT?!
You mean they DON'T?!
All I've ever known is a lie...
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| No, it's a truth that you deny!
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| baking for the geometrically inclined.
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| The only thing that could've made that pie cooler would have been pecan numbers....
5 stars!
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| This is crazy-good and WAY tops the fractal pie. Since you seemed to
have solved the gravity issue, how about a mobius pie next year?
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| we mustn't let this technology into the hands of our enemy comrades :P
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| That is the most amazing pie I ever saw!
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| Wow. Talk about gamer food...
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| A d20 made from pie?
This is so incredibly awesome. Should make this one day...
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| What the heck!? This thing is insanely awesome!
Nice job.
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| Dec 6, 2007. 2:15 PMcwant
says:
Do you actually use a pie on the bottom face? I'm not sure I'd want to
eat that piece!
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| yep! it may not look so pretty, but it still tastes just as delicious
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| Isn't this technically a "pie holder" not a pie?
Its fun bit hard to eat....lol
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| Nov 26, 2007. 4:04 PMkid123
says:
Freakin SWEET... literally
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| That's one delicious dreidel!
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| Nov 23, 2007. 7:40 AMPKM
says:
Step 2, last picture- all you need is a huge drill on the other hand and a creepy little girl following you around... I saw the pans were riveted, and thought "ah, you don't have to line with foil to protect the pie against the welding slag like those saps who made the... fractal pie.. wait, you are those saps! More maths and less welding FTW" I am completely at a loss to imagine what you will bake next, the furthest reaches of my creative cooking are really huge snacks. Mmm, gargantuan Jaffa cake. + |
| though not as geometrically profound, any plans for a perfectly
spherical pecan pie? I don't know how you'd do it, whether zero and an
oven or a big spinny (spin-y, not spine-y) thing and a blowtorch...
just a thought...
yeah, could you make a toroidal pie by using centrifugal
"force" inside a circular section of pipe?
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| Or you could use a Bundt pan. Remember the best solution is the simplest solution.
Opus
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