The Many Faces of Polyhedrons
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Left to right: A truncated icosahedron, a small rhomibcuboctahedron,
and a snub dodecahedron
as seen in The Many Faces of Polyhedrons.
This is a program that I (Tom
York) wrote which allows you to interactively manipulate virtual regular
polyhedrons (cube, dodecahedron, etc.) and semiregular polyhedrons (e.g.
the truncated icosahedron – the soccer ball shape), as well as a few others.
With it you can:
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rotate polyhedrons by dragging with the mouse,
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display them as wireframes or with colored faces, or with a mix of colored
and transparent faces,
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transform them into each other in various ways (e.g. by exploding a tetrahedron
to get a cuboctahedron), and
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change the colors of individual faces by (right) clicking on the faces.
This is a Windows program, written in Borland Pascal
for Windows. It was originally written for Windows 3.1, but it seems to
run fine under later versions of Windows.
View
a screenshot.
Download the Many Faces of
Polyhedrons (165 kB)