Platonic solid graph generator

Revision as of 13:25, 29 January 2008

Platonic solid graph generator creates algorithmically graphs for simple geometrical objects known as Platonic solids. You may think the generated topic maps as graph abstractions of real geometrical objects. Platonic solids are

• Tetrahedron
• Cube
• Octahedron
• Dodecahedron
• Icosahedron

Generator starts with File > Generators > Platonic solid graph generator.... Generator creates a topic for each vertex and connects the vertex topic to other vertex topics sharing an edge. Vertex topics are given a base name

<object> Vextex <n>

where <object> is Tetrahedron, Cube, Octahedron, Dodecahedron, or Icosahedron. and <n> is a number of the vertex. First vertex gets number 0. For example Cube Vertex 5 is a base name for cube's last vertex point.

Similarly each vertex topic is given a subject identifier

http://www.wandora.org/<object>/vertex<n>

where <object> is lower case name of the object and <n> a number of the vertex. Vertexes are connected with edge associations. Association type's base name and subject identifiers are

 <object>Edge
 http://www.wandora.org/<object>/edge

Association roles are

 <object> Role 1
 http://www.wandora.org/<object>/role1

 <object> Role 2
 http://www.wandora.org/<object>/role2

Screenshots

Wandora's graph topic panel views platonic solids as graphs.