Tetrahedron Packing: 85.63%

Packing Tetrahedrons, and Closing In on a Perfect Fit

Interesting article... not sure what 85.63% looks like though.

Tags: geometry, packing, platonic, tetrahedron

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Permalink Reply by Daniel Piker on January 5, 2010 at 8:48am

Yes, very interesting work.
Their packing was based on a dodecagonal quasicrystal:

This brings back memories of the first thing I ever used Rhino for -
I had made this paper model of packed octahedra:

and it wasn't until I modeled it in Rhino that I saw that the packing doesn't work.

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Permalink Reply by Jake Alsop on November 22, 2011 at 5:20pm

I dont suppose anyone knows of the formula for the quasicrystal? I have been modeling it in rhino with the inter-packing of fat and thin rhombs...like a 3D penrose tiling and was hoping/ curious as to whether I could use grasshopper within the process atall. Any suggestions would be great. thanks,

Jake