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Platonic Solids

Platonic solids have a beautiful, yet simple geometric elegance to them, that should insipire the creative side of any student.

So what makes this type of 3d shape so appealing? It?s geometric perfection!

All faces are composed of congruent, regular polygons. And each vertex has the same number of faces meeting at it.

Please click on any of the images below, to get more detailed information on each of the platonic solids.

The method of naming of these solids is similar to the method used in naming polygons, but it is derived from the number of faces on the shape.


cube
Cube
 dodecahedron
Dodecahedron
 Icosahedron
Icosahedron
Octahedron
Octahedron
 Tetrahedron,
Tetrahedron





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