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[โ€“] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

It looks like you would wrap fibers around the vertices to make something 3d out of frabric tbh.

Edit: it seems my theory has been largely discounted ๐Ÿ˜”

[โ€“] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I wonder if we have any computer code today where a lack of documentation will bring about similar issues hundreds of years down the line

[โ€“] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I have already encountered this

[โ€“] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I have created plenty of this, but Iโ€™d be surprised if any of it exists in even the next 5 years.

[โ€“] Protoknuckles@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I remember speculation that this could have been used to make gloves. That was discounted?

[โ€“] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

as spool knitting devices for making gloves (though the earliest known reference to spool knitting is from 1535, and this would neither explain the use of bronze, nor the apparently similar icosahedron which is missing the holes necessary for spool knitting)

From the wikipedia

Not entirely discounted but considered unlikely

[โ€“] PrimeMinisterKeyes@leminal.space 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

which is missing the holes

Mittens it is, then.