Sunday, March 1, 2015

Platonic Solid

Platonic Solid [pluh-ton-ik sol-id]
Noun
A platonic solid is a 3D shape which has the following characteristics:

  • each face is the same exact polygon 
  • the same number of polygon meet at each vertex/corner   

TetrahedronTetrahedron
  • 3 triangles meet at each vertex
  • 4 Faces
  • 4 Vertices
  • 6 Edges

CubeCube
  • 3 squares meet at each vertex
  • 6 Faces
  • 8 Vertices
  • 12 Edges
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