Various pages on three-dimensional solids.
3D Solids
Platonic and Archimedean Solids
This is a intended to be a steady stream of cool ideas about Platonic and Archimedean Solids. **Page under construction** It Starts with the Tetrahedron The tetrahedron is awesome. It has 4 triangles for faces, 4 vertices, and 6 edges. A vertex is a point (0-dimensional). An edge is a segment (1-D). A face is …
Cone, Hemisphere, Cylinder Relationship
Volumes The ratio of the volumes of Cone:Hemisphere:Cylinder is 1:2:3. Make each with a radius of r and and height of r. (The formulas work out nicely. This is left to the reader as a nice exercise 😉 Here’s a nice gif of the concept (click to see the animation): This was found on a …
Top 9 Interesting Things to Know about the Rhombic Triacontahedron
Rhombic Triacontahedron The Rhombic Triacontahedron is made up of 30 rhombi (rhombuses). Every face is congruent. The Rhombic Triacontahedron is not Platonic (that’s obvious, there are only 5 Platonic solids), not Archimedean, and not even a Johnson solid, because the faces are not regular polygons. The shape is so interesting that it is sold as …
9-Grid Cube Problem
Here is an interesting problem from Week May 15 (2017) from https://brilliant.org/ https://brilliant.org/weekly-problems/2017-05-15/basic/?p=5 [Answer: It is possible.] My daughter and I worked on this problem and discovered a few interesting things. [As background: If you are unfamiliar with nets for a cube, you might want to visit http://mathforum.org/library/drmath/view/54682.html ] Our solution is below. Save …
Undergraduate Research Project Ideas
Here are a few ideas for undergraduate research projects involving three-dimensional geometry. Understanding dihedral angles. How to measure them from all the ways the angle may be presented. How points lines and planes are represented in 3 dimensions. Szilassi polyhedron – http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:12200 http://themathkid.tumblr.com/post/153564454406/57crazylittlethings-twocubes-apparently other coloring results in 3-dimensions.
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