Tag 'Halloween'

I made a sketch for this last night. Today when I came back to it, there was a dead fly on the web. Spooky!

Each platonic solid is made using smarties, hot glue, and patience. I used some of the extras to make this scary scary skeleton:

I built this starting from the top with one piece, and following the simple rule that for each layer, put a new piece below the spots where there is exactly one candy corn bottom corner. The process is explained with diagrams in a new page on candy corn.

There are 60 lollipops arranged with icosahedral symmetry, five each of 12 flavours. The first photo shows the whole ball, looking down at one of the 3-fold axes. The bulkiness of the wrappers makes it difficult to see the structure from the outside, but an inside view centered on one of the 5-fold axes reveals that the sticks are carefully arranged.

Each of the twelve pentagons has one of the twelve flavours circling it. I still have a bunch of extra lollipops, so there may be some more lollipolyhedra in the future... but there's so much other Halloween candy to mathematically explore as well!

They've been appended to the end of the fruit polyhedra page in the Mathematical Food Index.