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Galactohedra

Take up to the 1000 nearest stars and plot them in 3D space. Now, construct a 3D convex hull to form a family of "galactohedra". The name at the top comes from the most distant star in the selected subset. Hover over the black points to identify the stars making up the vertices.

Contributed by: Jeff Bryant
Suggested by: Ed Pegg Jr

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Convex Hull (Wolfram MathWorld)

"Galactohedra" from The Wolfram Demonstrations Project
http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/Galactohedra/

Contributed by: Jeff Bryant

Suggested by: Ed Pegg Jr

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