Certain crystal pattern to fill ( or tile ) three-dimensional space, including the cube ( the only regular polyhedron to do so ), the rhombic dodecahedron, and the truncated octahedron.
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Plato taught that the five regular polyhedrons of geometry symbolize the elements from which everything is made . ( A regular polyhedron is a three-dimensional form with flat sides, each side a regular polygon.
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Plato taught that the five regular polyhedrons of geometry symbolize the elements from which everything is made . ( A regular polyhedron is a three-dimensional form with flat sides, each side a regular polygon.
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While the pentagon is a regular polygon ( neglecting the hole in the center for the atrium ), the result of extruding it is not a regular polyhedron, since the sides of the buildings are rectangles, not pentagons.
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A special kind of truncation, usually implied, is a "'uniform truncation "', a truncation operator applied to a regular polyhedron ( or regular polytope ) which creates a resulting uniform polyhedron ( uniform polytope ) with equal edge lengths.
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They called them regular skew polyhedra, because they seemed to satisfy the definition of a regular polyhedron & mdash; all the vertices, edges and faces are alike, all the angles are the same, and the figure has no free edges.
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In three dimensions, the symmetry of a regular polyhedron, { p, q }, with one directed petrie polygon marked, defined as a composite of 3 reflections, has rotoinversion symmetry S h, [ 2 +, h + ], order " h ".
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The sum of the distances from any point in the interior of a regular polyhedron to the sides is independent of the location of the point . ( This is an extension of Viviani's theorem . ) However, the converse does not hold, not even for tetrahedra.
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Thus, just as hexagons have angles not less than 120?and cannot be used as the faces of a convex regular polyhedron because such a construction would not meet the requirement that at least three faces meet at a vertex and leave a positive non-convex regular polychora.
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Plato taught that existence is dominated by form, and that the five regular polyhedrons known to mathematicians _ the 4-sided tetrahedron, the 6-sided cube, the 8-sided octahedron, the 12-sided dodecahedron and the 20-sided icosahedron _ have symbolic significance . ( A regular polyhedron is a three-dimensional form whose faces are all regular polygons; the cube, for example, is made up of 6 regular polygons called squares .)
