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A Ride Through the World of Polyhedra
Images, properties, constructions, and java applets to rotate the shapes. Includes convex, non-convex, and other polyhedra, plus links to other sites.
Alexander's Polyhedra
Alex Doskey's collection of VMRL models. Includes a concentric model of the five platonic solids, Stewart G3's, toroidal polyhedra, and other shapes.
Circumnavigating a Cube and a Tetrahedron
Discusses the shortest closed routes which cross or visit each face or edge on the surfaces of the five regular polyhedra.
Fr. Magnus Wenninger OSB
Photographs of his constructions and a bibliography of works by and about him.
Gallery of Polyhedra
Gallery of shapes that can be made from books in the Tarquin catalogue, with some VRML models.
handsonmath.com
Geometric model building courses to improve understanding of geometry, using a Matrix kit for sale on the site that can be used in order to create the models yourself.
Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter
Biography from an online History of Mathematics, with quotes.
Juno's World
Three dimensional block puzzles, VRML models, instructions for creating real-world shrinkable models, and a gallery of images. In English and Japanese.
Martin's Pretty Polyhedra
Images generated by simulating n randomly placed, mutually repelling particles on a sphere. Simulations up to n = 257.
Mathematica Graphics Gallery
A dozen images of stellations and truncations created with Mathematica 3.0.
Mathematician's Portrait - Professor Emeritus
Short biography from the University of Toronto.
Metal Polyhedra Models
A set of eight solid aluminum models for purchase, available in several colors.
Multiple-unit Dodecahedral Constructions
Images and VRML models of the shapes connected together by their faces.
Netlib Repository - Polyhedra
Data files and sample C code for a large number of the shapes.
Paper Models of Polyhedra
More than eighty paper model templates, ready to cut out and fold up, available to print out or download.
Pavilion of Polyhedreality
List of links to sites on the topic, plus a few renderings of the shapes.
Platonic Solids
Explains why there can be only five regular polyhedra.
Platonic Spheres
The five regular polyhedra mapped onto the surface of their surrounding spheres, which can be rotated in java applets. Also includes a discussion of the mathematical properties of the shapes.
Polyedergarten
Images of paper models, plus some vrml models. In English, German, and French.
Polyhedra by Bruce Fast
Images and equations for regular polyhedra, plus some links.
Polyhedra by Jim McNeill
Collection of VRML models generated by a QuickBasic program named Hedron. A number of the models aren't seen elsewhere.
Polyhedra by Peter Cromwell
Contents, reviews, and errata of the book (CUP, 1997).
Polyhedra Collection by V. Bulatov
An extensive library of images and vrml models of the shapes. Includes uniform polyhedra, stellations, spherical platonic polyhedra, polyhedral mirrors, hyperbolic tesselations, plates from Bruckner's 1906 polyhedra book, and a stellation java applet.
Polyhedra Home by Sam Gatrix
Hundreds of ray-traced polyhedra, their duals, and their properties, plus Polyhedra 2001, a real-time viewer available for download (uses OpenGL).
Polyhedra Models by Doug Zongker
Templates for paper models for each of the 5 Platonic solids and the 13 Archimedean semi-regular polyhedra, in pdf format.
polyhedra.mathmos.net
An online encyclopedia of the shapes, including ray-traces and other data on the Platonic Solids, Kepler-Poinsot Polyhedra, and Archimedean Solids.
Polyhedron Models Custom Built
An introduction to the shapes by George Olshevsky, with their properties, specifications for his custom built models, and links to other pages.
Stellated Icosahedra
Background information and images of the 59 possible stellated icosahedra.
Studies into Polyhedra by Anthony Thyssen
VRML models and raw data in the OFF format to generate the shapes, plus images of the shapes rendered with povray.
Superliminal Software - The Geometry Page
Discussion of deltahedra, infinite and flexible polyhedra, with images, a java applet, and links.
Symmetry, Crystals and Polyhedra
Data on polyhedra, the different types, compounds of the shapes, stellations, stewart toroids, zonohedra, and tesselations. Also discusses crystallography and symmetry.
The Platonic Solids by Peter Alfeld
A proof that each configuration of polygons around a vertex results in a unique polyhedron, plus Java applets for rotating the images of the shapes.
The Puzzling World of Polyhedral Dissections
Puzzle designer's guidebook with designs, plans, and instructions for building geometric dissection puzzles of polyhedra and burrs.
The Uniform Polyhedra
Excerpt of Chapter 9 of R. Maeder's book The Mathematica Programmer II. Includes images and statistics for 80 uniform polyhedra, plus background information on the shapes and the wythoff symbol.
Three Puzzles with Polyhedra and Numbers
An article by Jorge Rezende, Lisbon. Includes a deltoidal icositetrahedron, rhombicuboctahedron and rhombic dodecahedron exercise. In English and Portuguese, PDF format.
Tom Gettys' Polyhedra Hyperpages
Ray-traced images and VRML models of platonic, archimedean, and kepler poinsot polyhedra, deltahedra, stellated polyhedra, and prisms.
Virtual Reality Polyhedra
Encyclopedia with virtual reality (VRML) models, history and art of the shapes. Includes background information on each shape, a glossary, guide to names, classroom activities, sculptures by the author, and a bibliography.
Waterman Polyhedra
Convex hulls generated from the mathematics of cubic close packing using a radial sweep algorithm, up to the square root of 94.
World of Polyhedra
System that can take 3d structure descriptions and generate mouse-rotatable flash animations out of them. Examples of animations for the five regular polytopes. In Chinese and English.
Zvi Har'El
Features a paper on uniform polyhedra and Kaleido software for computation and display of the shapes.