The biggest limitation of 3D

[Painbringer]

Is that you cannot make a perfect odd-sided object.

With 2D you can easily make any shape of three sides or more just by adding sides (triangle, square, pentagon, hexagon, etc).

But with 3D it gets really complicated: The minimum number of sides is four, and the only way to make an odd sided object is by making a prism.

This is mostly an esthetic issue when making dice.

Thoughts?

[Food-ness]

I thought you were talking about 3D movies, then I kind of got where you were coming from, then you said prism, and dice, so now I just want to play Dungeons & Dragons :p

[Painbringer]

At 1 minute ago, Food-ness wrote: I thought you were talking about 3D movies,

I was going to make the title "The biggest limitation of 3 dimensions" but there wasn't enough room in the fucking title - Wish they'd make it bigger.

then I kind of got where you were coming from, then you said prism, and dice, so now I just want to play Dungeons & Dragons :p

Never played D&D, but I'm pretty sure roleplaying games use a 10-sided die made up of equilateral triangles.

[KalebKore]

At 1 minute ago, Painbringer wrote: Never played D&D, but I'm pretty sure roleplaying games use a 10-sided die made up of equilateral triangles.

D&D uses a 20 sided die mainly, but there are also a bunch of of other ones.

d4, d6, d8, d10, d12, d20

[Food-ness]

D&D uses a 20 sided die mainly, but there are also a bunch of of other ones.

They've got 200 sided dice too, forget what its called.

[tox]

At 10 minutes ago, Food-ness wrote:

D&D uses a 20 sided die mainly, but there are also a bunch of of other ones.

They've got 200 sided dice too, forget what its called.

its called a dice...

[Entice]

Someone's never heard of curved surfaces.
Admittedly they wouldn't help with dice, but the title made it sound like you were talking about 3D objects in general.

[Bacchanalian]

At 2 hours ago, Painbringer wrote: Thoughts?

Doesn't a pentagon give you an 11 sided prism?

[Bacchanalian]

At 5 minutes ago, Bacchanalian wrote:

At 2 hours ago, Painbringer wrote: Thoughts?

Doesn't a pentagon give you an 11 sided prism?

I mean 11 sided regular polyhedron.

[Razz]

A 3D object is not limited to width, paper is still viewed three dimensionally. But we can add more width (or depth, if you will) as a book. In both variations it's still technically a cube, just that the former has a lot less thickness.

Your odd-sided dice wouldn't even have to be a traditional die, it could be in a wheel-type format. Just takes a little innovation.

[Bacchanalian]

At 6 minutes ago, Bacchanalian wrote:

At 5 minutes ago, Bacchanalian wrote:

At 2 hours ago, Painbringer wrote: Thoughts?

Doesn't a pentagon give you an 11 sided prism?

I mean 11 sided regular polyhedron.

Never mind.

[MushookieMan]

At 37 seconds ago, Razz wrote: A 3D object is not limited to width, paper is still viewed three dimensionally. But we can add more width (or depth, if you will) as a book. In both variations it's still technically a cube, just that the former has a lot less thickness.

If the edges don't have the same length then it's a rectangular prism, not a cube.

[Corky-D]

At 2 hours ago, tox wrote:

At 10 minutes ago, Food-ness wrote:

D&D uses a 20 sided die mainly, but there are also a bunch of of other ones.

They've got 200 sided dice too, forget what its called.

its called a dice...

A die, actually.