Duals from Platonic Solids Generated Incorrectly #1
Description
This is more an issue of how my Platonic Solid Builder and my Dual Graph Builder work.
I construct a 1-1 mesh-to-graph conversion after generating a fancy mesh using my Platonic Solid Generator. Then generate the dual of the mesh-graph to create my planet graph.
But, because the translation from mesh to mesh-graph is 1-1 this means that instead of working with polygons (like squares for cube and pentagons for dodecahedron) I always work with triangles. This produces weird artifacts in the solids which don't use triangles exclusively.
This is why a cube planet looks wonky, and why a dodecahedron with no subdivisions is actually another dodecahedron subdivided once (instead of the expected icosahedron).
Unfortunately, this may be out of my scope; while I understand the concepts of subdividing triangles and quads (REMIDNER: arbitrary quads can be subdivided by lerping any two pairs of unconnected sides, then lerping between those); I'm not sure how easy it would be to subdivide pentagons.
While I don't believe my code does this perfectly; I'd prefer if I could subdivide in a way that would allow an icosahedron and a dodecahedron to be duals; given the proper inputs. But I don't know if this is possible.
What I do know is possible, is to subdivide a pentagon into 6 pentagons (which may lead to the behavior I'd like) even if it doesn't it would follow the format of subdividing into the same parent shape.