Three Cylinders in a Cube

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Cylinders pass through a cube along three edges of an octahedron that bypass each other. The cylinders do not intersect with each other until their diameter is greater than one sixth of the body diagonal of the cube.

External Links

Cube (Wolfram MathWorld)
Cylinder (Wolfram MathWorld)
Octahedron (Wolfram MathWorld)

Permanent Citation

Sándor Kabai, Ralf Schaper
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​"Three Cylinders in a Cube"​
​http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/ThreeCylindersInACube/​
​Wolfram Demonstrations Project​
​Published: April 27, 2007