Talk:Rhombic dodecahedron

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Please update this rating as the article progresses, or if the rating is inaccurate. Click to show/hide comments. Please add to or update the comments to suggest improvements to the article. Geometry guy 22:23, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] The shape of squashed peas

If you get a bunch of malleable spherical objects and apply uniform pressure to them, for instance if you squeeze a bag of peas, the objects approximate rhombic dodecahedra. I hesitate to add this to the article, because I have no source and it's a fairly vauge statement anyway, but I think it's cool. —Keenan Pepper 04:35, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

The article could say something more explicit about close-packing. —Tamfang 05:34, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

You can also get Trapezo-rhombic dodecahedron cells as well - same packing density. Tom Ruen 06:54, 22 April 2006 (UTC)