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Coins to Diamonds

Started by TimeSpaceLightForce, Feb 17 2013 06:54 AM

Best Answer Yoruichi-san, 18 February 2013 - 10:42 PM

Spoiler for No...not what I meant...
No, you missed the "viewing from the side" part of my post. Viewed from the side, the coins look like lines ;P. Also, the OP doesn't specify the coins have to be the same coin, so you could do it easily by using 2 coins that have a diameter that is 2X and 3 coins that are a diameter of X, which, viewed in the third dimension, are lines with those lengths

Hai! That is yes..5 coins w/ 2 double diamater. Looks like a parallelogram with line in the middle.
OP should say "same coin" but i guess no one use 4 half-cut coins (or bitable coins) to make 8 diameters.
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2dia.JPG
It seem to have 2 hexagons?

My angles were more...90 degrees .

Spoiler for The beauty of a two dimensional projection of a three dimensional arrangement

Sorry if I'm going on a completely different tangent than what the OP intended, to be honest, I'm not sure what the OP intends :lol: , but seeing your response to witzar made me think 'outside the box' (or plane of the box ) type solutions were acceptable.

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#11 Yoruichi-san

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Posted 18 February 2013 - 07:24 PM

Spoiler for Three dimensions...
Viewing from the side, there are several ways to do it with 5 with US coins...

...or coins of other countries...

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diamonds.JPG

Flat face arcade coins will do. But the 3-D arrangement above looks like it has 7 triangles.

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#12 TimeSpaceLightForce

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Posted 18 February 2013 - 10:31 PM

Spoiler for No...not what I meant...
No, you missed the "viewing from the side" part of my post. Viewed from the side, the coins look like lines ;P. Also, the OP doesn't specify the coins have to be the same coin, so you could do it easily by using 2 coins that have a diameter that is 2X and 3 coins that are a diameter of X, which, viewed in the third dimension, are lines with those lengths

Hai! That is yes..5 coins w/ 2 double diamater. Looks like a parallelogram with line in the middle.
OP should say "same coin" but i guess no one use 4 half-cut coins (or bitable coins) to make 8 diameters.

Spoiler for thru manifying lens

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#13 Yoruichi-san

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Posted 18 February 2013 - 10:42 PM Best Answer

Spoiler for No...not what I meant...
No, you missed the "viewing from the side" part of my post. Viewed from the side, the coins look like lines ;P. Also, the OP doesn't specify the coins have to be the same coin, so you could do it easily by using 2 coins that have a diameter that is 2X and 3 coins that are a diameter of X, which, viewed in the third dimension, are lines with those lengths

Hai! That is yes..5 coins w/ 2 double diamater. Looks like a parallelogram with line in the middle.
OP should say "same coin" but i guess no one use 4 half-cut coins (or bitable coins) to make 8 diameters.
Spoiler for thru manifying lens

2dia.JPG
It seem to have 2 hexagons?

My angles were more...90 degrees .

Spoiler for The beauty of a two dimensional projection of a three dimensional arrangement

Sorry if I'm going on a completely different tangent than what the OP intended, to be honest, I'm not sure what the OP intends :lol: , but seeing your response to witzar made me think 'outside the box' (or plane of the box ) type solutions were acceptable.

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Women are definitely stronger. We are [Fe]males, after all...

Some of what makes me me is real, some of what makes me me is imaginary...I guess I'm just complex. ;P

<3 BBC's Sherlock, the series and the man. "Smart is the new sexy."

Chromatic Witch links now on my 'About Me' page! Episode 2 is awaiting it's epic conclusion...are you up to the task?

When life hands me lemons, I make invisible ink.

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#14 Yoruichi-san

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Posted 19 February 2013 - 02:39 AM

Oooh...I know this is definitely not what the OP intended, but I can't resist...

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Edited by Yoruichi-san, 19 February 2013 - 02:40 AM.

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Women are definitely stronger. We are [Fe]males, after all...

Some of what makes me me is real, some of what makes me me is imaginary...I guess I'm just complex. ;P

<3 BBC's Sherlock, the series and the man. "Smart is the new sexy."

Chromatic Witch links now on my 'About Me' page! Episode 2 is awaiting it's epic conclusion...are you up to the task?

When life hands me lemons, I make invisible ink.

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Posted 19 February 2013 - 09:51 AM

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#16 TimeSpaceLightForce

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Posted 19 February 2013 - 10:15 AM

Spoiler for No...not what I meant...
No, you missed the "viewing from the side" part of my post. Viewed from the side, the coins look like lines ;P. Also, the OP doesn't specify the coins have to be the same coin, so you could do it easily by using 2 coins that have a diameter that is 2X and 3 coins that are a diameter of X, which, viewed in the third dimension, are lines with those lengths

Hai! That is yes..5 coins w/ 2 double diamater. Looks like a parallelogram with line in the middle.
OP should say "same coin" but i guess no one use 4 half-cut coins (or bitable coins) to make 8 diameters.
Spoiler for thru manifying lens

2dia.JPG
It seem to have 2 hexagons?

My angles were more...90 degrees .

Spoiler for The beauty of a two dimensional projection of a three dimensional arrangement
If you want to use the same coin, you can stagger the stacking so that there is 3 coins in 'back' in one direction and 2 coins in 'front in a different direction. Then when you look at it from a front view, it 'seems' to be a grid of intersecting lines that form two rhombuses.

Sorry if I'm going on a completely different tangent than what the OP intended, to be honest, I'm not sure what the OP intends , but seeing your response to witzar made me think 'outside the box' (or plane of the box ) type solutions were acceptable.

Oui! congrats Y-san .. merci

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#17 Yoruichi-san

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Posted 19 February 2013 - 06:18 PM

Ohhhhh so that's what you were thinking...lol...tres ingenieux .

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Women are definitely stronger. We are [Fe]males, after all...

Some of what makes me me is real, some of what makes me me is imaginary...I guess I'm just complex. ;P

<3 BBC's Sherlock, the series and the man. "Smart is the new sexy."

Chromatic Witch links now on my 'About Me' page! Episode 2 is awaiting it's epic conclusion...are you up to the task?

When life hands me lemons, I make invisible ink.