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To be fair, the current first sentence is rather trite as well. Perhaps we could go straight into the description of the polyhedron rather than defining it as a stellation in the first sentence, but it seems a little wrong to dive straight into details without a topic sentence.
QuarterNotes (
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21:37, 4 December 2019 (UTC)reply
I rewrote the lead to explain the title terms rather than merely repeating them. There was a bigger problem with the article: it confused two quite different polyhedra with the same visual appearance, the self-crossing one with 12 hexagonal faces that is the stellation and the non-self-crossing one with 48 triangular faces that is the boundary of Escher's solid. I have tried to clarify the distinction between these two polyhedra. It is likely that additional improvements are possible. —
David Eppstein (
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22:38, 4 December 2019 (UTC)reply
Ah yes. That clarifies things quite a bit. Should we add a section on Escher’s solid? Or create an entirely new article? There does not appear to be an article on it yet; in fact, this is the only article in which Escher’s solid is even mentioned, and searching “Escher’s Solid” leads to a redirect to this article.
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15:32, 5 December 2019 (UTC)reply