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by proee 1640 days ago
One of my engineering friends devoted a large portion of his life studying the dodecahedron. He believed it was used as a "fluid scanner" to measure the displacement of 3d objects using water.

https://www.eeweb.com/interview-with-john-ladd/

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Oh man, that brings back memories. Roman System Engineering a.k.a. "TimeCube with Tits"! They still have the original promo 'marketing' on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/29490154
Did anything ever come of it? The interview has some wild claims.
Unfortunately one of the principals died of a brain aneurism a few years later https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/billingsgazette/name/jo...