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Three different representations of 2001's early monolith ...
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Seemingly because although Kubrick originally designed the monolith as a tetrahedron, the most basic geometric unit of the five Platonic solids, he began to notice that people he showed it to didn't appear to know what it was (as it is formed entirely from just four equilateral triangles, it's very different to the Egyptian pyramids at Giza, which have a square base below four triangles, half ...
Monolith (Space Odyssey) - Wikipedia
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The first design for the Monolith for the 2001 film was a tetrahedral pyramid. This was taken from the 1951 short story " The Sentinel " that the first story was based on. A London firm was approached to provide a 12-foot (3.7 m) plexiglass pyramid, and due to construction constraints they recommended a flat slab shape.
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The mysterious black monolith began as a translucent Plexiglas tetrahedron, which ultimately assumed a monolith shape because Plexiglas cools better that way. ... 2001 ended up becoming the ...
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Originally, 2001 was set to end in the same way the novel does. Instead of the Star Child descending on Earth, the finale would have featured Bowman finding the third monolith on the surface of Saturn's moon Japetus.
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A lost of mis-information circulating around. People are ignorant of the tetrahedron, else 60 degree angles are harder to cut than 90 degree corners, else tetrahedrons overheat.
And Iapetus is spelt with a J...