So excited! Sunday, November 3rd is One World Antiprism Day!!!
This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science.
What’s a prism? Picture a Toblerone box—ends are two small triangles, sides are three long skinny rectangles, spelling out “To-bler-one.”
An antiprism? Hold the two triangular ends, twist them. YOU have a mess— But if Swiss engineers did it, it would be a rotated tube with SIX sides of skinny alternating triangles—one points up, one points down!
America’s most famous antiprism is New York’s One World Trade Center, which turns ten this year! A square-based antiprism with eight triangular sides, it’s also our tallest building, nearly eighteen hundred feet. But David Childs’ twisty design makes it exceptionally structurally sturdy.
So celebrate polyhedrons this weekend! With chocolate. Go Huy Pham and Westminster High STEM!
Check out the 1st EVER K-12 “One World Antiprism Day” Celebration here!
