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Q: Are the Platonic solids shadows of 4-polytopes?

Joseph O'RourkeSay that a 3D shadow of a 4-polytope is a parallel projection to 3-space, not necessarily orthogonal to that 3-space (that would make it an orthogonal projection). I am wondering if each of the five regular polyhedra in 3D are shadows of regular 4-polytopes. The 4-simplex can project to a regular...

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A: Are the Platonic solids shadows of 4-polytopes?

Theo Johnson-FreydJoseph, in your response to Igor in the comments you allow holding the candle that's casting the shadow very close to a face. This is precisely the picture that Ian gave in the comments. But in your question you require that the candle be infinitely far away, so that it is a parallel projection...

The picture link seems to be broken and I did not find it in the Wayback Machine, either. But since the filename is the same, I guess it might be this picture: projects.ias.edu/pcmi/hstp/sum2007/photos/PCMI2007028.jpg - as I wasn't absolutely sure, I posted just a comment instead of editing. (Sorry for a comment on an old post - but since the question was bumped, I checked whether some of the links here cannot be fixed.) — Martin Sleziak 34 secs ago
Does the Mandelbrot set have dense interior? I have added . But the question is still missing a top-level tag.
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Q: Does the Mandelbrot set have dense interior?

Geoffrey IrvingLet $M$ be the Mandelbrot set. Question: Is the interior of $M$ dense in $M$? My intuition is that this is true, and moreover that hyperbolic components of the interior are dense in $M$ as well, and moreover that this is known (as it is not very close to the Hyperbolicity Conjecture and thus not ...


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