Polyhedra

[kerravonsen]

I stumbled across this chart showing the relationships between various polyhedrons (polyhedra?), a useful and interesting chart. It got me thinking about which ones were my favourite.

* dodecahedron
* icosahedron
* truncated icosahedron
* icosadodecahedron (say that three times fast!)
* cuboctahedron

With a soft spot for the tetrahedron and the octahedron.

What are your favourite polyhedra?

Comments

[reapermum.livejournal.com]

When I was at school we had a copy of Cundy's Mathematical Models and a few available lessons after exams. We all built card models, between us we managed a full set of solids. We were especially proud of the stellated icosahedron and dodecahedron.

[kerravonsen]

And so you should have been, they would have been really tricky. Awesome!

[reapermum.livejournal.com]

I've knitted one since. :-)

(http://s157.photobucket.com/user/Reapermum/media/knitting/Stellated_dodecahedron-2-1.jpg.html)

Sorry the photo came out a bit large.

[kerravonsen]

Wow.