In geometry, a polyhedron (pl.: polyhedra or polyhedrons; from Greek πολύ (poly-) 'many' and ἕδρον (-hedron) 'base, seat') is a three-dimensional figure...
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In geometry, every polyhedron is associated with a second dual structure, where the vertices of one correspond to the faces of the other, and the edges...
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A regular polyhedron is a polyhedron whose symmetry group acts transitively on its flags. A regular polyhedron is highly symmetrical, being all of edge-transitive...
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Platonic solid (redirect from Convex regular polyhedron)
Platonic solid is a convex, regular polyhedron in three-dimensional Euclidean space. Being a regular polyhedron means that the faces are congruent (identical...
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space is called an n-dimensional polyhedron. Polyhedron may also refer to: Polyhedron (magazine), formerly Polyhedron Newszine, a former magazine targeting...
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Cube (section Polyhedron, honeycombs, and polytopes)
three-dimensional solid object bounded by six congruent square faces, a type of polyhedron. It has twelve congruent edges and eight vertices. It is a type of parallelepiped...
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Vertex (geometry) (redirect from Polyhedron vertex)
"reflex". More generally, a vertex of a polyhedron or polytope is convex, if the intersection of the polyhedron or polytope with a sufficiently small sphere...
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more specifically in polyhedral combinatorics, a Goldberg polyhedron is a convex polyhedron made from hexagons and pentagons. They were first described...
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A geodesic polyhedron is a convex polyhedron made from triangles. They usually have icosahedral symmetry, such that they have 6 triangles at a vertex...
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In geometry, a uniform polyhedron has regular polygons as faces and is vertex-transitive—there is an isometry mapping any vertex onto any other. It follows...
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Euler characteristic (redirect from Euler's polyhedron formula)
numbers of vertices (corners), edges and faces in the given polyhedron. Any convex polyhedron's surface has Euler characteristic χ = V − E + F = 2 ....
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In geometry, a spherical polyhedron or spherical tiling is a tiling of the sphere in which the surface is divided or partitioned by great arcs into bounded...
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Edge (geometry) (redirect from Polyhedron edge)
edges; this square has 4 edges. Every edge is shared by two faces in a polyhedron, like this cube. Every edge is shared by three or more faces in a 4-polytope...
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In geometry, a toroidal polyhedron is a polyhedron which is also a toroid (a g-holed torus), having a topological genus (g) of 1 or greater. Notable examples...
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In geometry, a Schönhardt polyhedron is a polyhedron with the same combinatorial structure as a regular octahedron, but with dihedral angles that are non-convex...
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Polyhedron (formerly Polyhedron Newszine) was a magazine targeting consumers of role-playing games, and originally the official publication of the RPGA...
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In geometry, a net of a polyhedron is an arrangement of non-overlapping edge-joined polygons in the plane which can be folded (along edges) to become the...
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In geometry, a composite polyhedron is a convex polyhedron that produces other polyhedrons when sliced by a plane. Examples can be found in Johnson solids...
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Archimedean solid (redirect from Archimedean polyhedron)
elongated square gyrobicupola or pseudorhombicuboctahedron is an extra polyhedron with regular faces and congruent vertices, but it is not generally counted...
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Truncated tetrahedron (redirect from Friauf polyhedron)
all of its vertices off, a process known as truncation. The resulting polyhedron has 4 equilateral triangles and 4 regular hexagons, 18 edges, and 12 vertices...
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geometry, the Császár polyhedron (Hungarian: [ˈt͡ʃaːsaːr]) is a nonconvex toroidal polyhedron with 14 triangular faces. This polyhedron has no diagonals;...
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In geometry, the truncated icosahedron is a polyhedron that can be constructed by truncating all of the regular icosahedron's vertices. Intuitively, it...
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Szilassi polyhedron is a nonconvex polyhedron, topologically a torus, with seven hexagonal faces. The 14 vertices and 21 edges of the Szilassi polyhedron form...
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In three-dimensional hyperbolic geometry, an ideal polyhedron is a convex polyhedron all of whose vertices are ideal points, points "at infinity" rather...
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Johnson solid (redirect from Face-regular polyhedron)
is a strictly convex polyhedron whose faces are regular polygons. They are sometimes defined to exclude the uniform polyhedrons. There are ninety-two...
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In geometry, a flexible polyhedron is a polyhedral surface without any boundary edges, whose shape can be continuously changed while keeping the shapes...
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Density (polytope) (redirect from Polyhedron density)
In geometry, the density of a star polyhedron is a generalization of the concept of winding number from two dimensions to higher dimensions, representing...
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In geometry, a star polyhedron is a polyhedron which has some repetitive quality of nonconvexity giving it a star-like visual quality. There are two general...
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Stellation (redirect from Stellated polyhedron)
stellation is the process of extending a polygon in two dimensions, a polyhedron in three dimensions, or, in general, a polytope in n dimensions to form...
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An n-dimensional polyhedron is a geometric object that generalizes the 3-dimensional polyhedron to an n-dimensional space. It is defined as a set of points...
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