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Armand Spitz used a dodecahedron as the "globe" equivalent for his Digital Dome planetarium projector, [10] based upon a suggestion from Albert Einstein. Regular dodecahedrons are sometimes used as dice, when they are known as d12s, especially in games such as Dungeons and Dragons.
Two dodecahedra and an icosahedron on display in the Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn, Germany. The first dodecahedron was found in 1739. Since then, at least 130 similar objects have been found in Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Hungary, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Switzerland and the United Kingdom, but not in the Roman heartland in Italy. [1]
Parker said he is optimistic that the mystery will be solved because this dodecahedron was found in an archaeological excavation area, whereas “many of those that were found 200 or 300 years ago ...
The regular dodecahedron is often used in role-playing games as a twelve-sided die ("d12" for short), one of the more common polyhedral dice. Desk calendars are occasionally made in the shape of a dodecahedron, usually from a die-cut folded card, with one month on each face.
The shape of the "Crystal Dome" used in the popular TV game show The Crystal Maze was based on a pentakis dodecahedron. In Doctor Atomic, the shape of the first atomic bomb detonated in New Mexico was a pentakis dodecahedron. In De Blob 2 in the Prison Zoo, domes are made up of parts of a Pentakis Dodecahedron. These Domes also appear whenever ...
Another early reference is the list of Buddha games (circa 500 BC) which is a list from the Pali Canon that Buddhist monks were forbidden to play. This list mentions games on boards with 8 or 10 rows (Ashtapada and Daśapada), games which use floor diagrams (one game called Parihâra-patham is similar to hop-scotch), dice games and ball games.
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This company marketed Hamilton's game beginning in 1859, [4] in both its handheld solid and flat forms, [5] under the lengthy titles The Travellers Dodecahedron, or a voyage around the world, and (respectively) The Icosian Game, invented by Sir William Rowan Hamilton, Royal Astronomer of Ireland; forming a new and highly amusing game for the ...