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• Science: Math: Geometry: Solid Geometry (3)

• 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.
• A Ride Through the Polyhedra World - Provides animations and video clips of convex polyhedra, non convex polyhedra, other polyhedra and related subjects. In French and English.
• 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.
• Father 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 - Abstract of book about geometric model building.
• 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.
• Mathematician's Portrait - Professor Emeritus H.S.M. Coxeter - 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 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 by Peter Cromwell - Contents, reviews, and errata of the book (CUP, 1997).
• Stellated Icosahedra - Background information and images of the 59 possible stellated icosahedra.
• 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. [PDF]
• Tom Gettys' Polyhedra Hyperpages - Ray-traced images and VRML models of platonic, archimedean, and kepler poinsot polyhedra, deltahedra, stellated polyhedra, and prisms.
• Vladimir Bulatov Polyhedra Collection - Collection of information on polyhedra with images, VRML files, interactive java applets and original research.
• Zvi Har'El - Features a paper on uniform polyhedra and Kaleido software for computation and display of the shapes.
• 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.

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