alt Hacker NewsCouldn't you achieve this same result with a ball that has one weighted flat side?
And then if it needs to be more polygonal, just reduce the vertices?
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Etheryte • last Wednesday at 9:29 PM
A ball that has one flat side can land on two sides: the round side and the flat side. You can easily verify this by cutting an apple in half and putting one half flat side down and the other flat side up.
The article acknowledges that roly-poly toys have always worked, but in this case they were looking for polyhedra with entirely flat surfaces.