#platonic solids

[ketrinadrawsalot]

Today I learned that the ancient Greeks associated each Platonic solid with one of the five elements.

[travelling-my-little-pony]

I attemped to make a Platonic solid from cheese puffs. No, there was no real plan to this.

[muckmagister]

my cuubes:)

[cosmicportal]

“It is through geometry that one purifies the eye of the soul.” ~ Plato

[todays-xkcd]

Plato made the solids, and five were gifted to the mathematicians. But in secret Plato forged a sixth solid to rule over all the others.

The Six Platonic Solids [Explained]

[tootditoot]

HrmMmM Platonic Solids do be platonicky

[best-shapes]

Regular-ish Convex Polyhedra Bracket — Round 5 (Finals)

Propaganda

Truncated Icosidodecahedron:

Also called the Rhombitruncated Icosidodecahedron, Great Rhombicosidodecahedron, Omnitruncated Dodecahedron, Omnituncated Icosahedron

Archimedean Solid

Semiregular

Dual of the Disdyakis Triacontahedron

It has 12 regular decagonal faces, 20 regular hexagonal faces, 30 square faces, 180 edges, and 120 vertices.

It has the most edges and vertices of all platonic and archimedean solids.

Of the vertex-transitive polyhedra, it fills up the most of the volume of the sphere it fits in (89.80%).

It is not actually the shape you get when you truncate an icosidodecahedron, although it is topologically equivalent.

It is the mod's favorite three-dimensional shape.

They made a void truncated icosidodecahedron and it's glorious. I had one for a while, it's hard to turn because of alignment issues, especially the decagonal sides. Fun puzzle tho, never did figure out how to permute the last layer...

Image Credit: @anonymous-leemur

Regular Icosahedron:

Platonic Solid

Regular

Dual of the Regular Dodecahedron

It has 20 regular triangular faces, 30 edges, and 12 vertices.

Image Credit: @etirabys

[knotty-et-al]

Front: 5 platonic solids and the 13 Archimedean solids

Back: Root-like structures, depicting some relationships between these 18 solids.

Both simultaneously (Holding it against light source):

[visualcontinuum]

Wednesday at the Perspective Room.

[jublubdubs-cone]

Tetrahedron (oc)

She is Tetrahedron. In the research center she works at, she is the one who focuses on human sciences the most, while all her peers try to figure out how math and the shape-body works, she is keen on finding out how society works. And more than that: How would other societies different from ours work...?

concept art / A-posed model

[mycrystalearth]

🌞 abundance & prosperity 🌞

[earolinc]

once on this app i saw someone call kepler-poinsot polyhedra queerplatonic solids and that post occupies a significant amount of space in my brain. i think about it daily.

[molassicide]

[art-of-mathematics]

Today's Tiny Tetrahedron

(artist of the colorful artwork in the background of the first photo is unknown)