Puzzle designer's guidebook with designs, plans, and instructions for building geometric dissection puzzles of polyhedra and burrs.
Images, properties, constructions, and java applets to rotate the shapes. Includes convex, non-convex, and other polyhedra, plus links to other sites.
VRML models and raw data in the OFF format to generate the shapes, plus images of the shapes rendered with povray.
An article by Jorge Rezende, Lisbon. Includes a deltoidal icositetrahedron, rhombicuboctahedron and rhombic dodecahedron exercise. In English and Portuguese, PDF format.
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.
Features a paper on uniform polyhedra and Kaleido software for computation and display of the shapes.
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.
An introduction to the shapes by George Olshevsky, with their properties, specifications for his custom built models, and links to other pages.
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.
Background information and images of the 59 possible stellated icosahedra.
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