Studies into Polyhedra - Prisms

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Regular, Semi-Regular Polyhedra, and thier Duals (first page)
Prisms, Anti-prisms, Pryamids, and related Polyhedra
Miscellanous Polyhedra: Deltahedra
Johnson Solids -- The other convex polyhedra with regular faces

Why I studied polyhedra, and Image Generation Techniques
Known Polyhedral Mathematical Formula
Data Sources and links for Polyhedral Data

Miscellanious Polyhedra

Here we look at miscelanious catagories of polyhedra. The groups formed are interesting though unrelated.

Deltahedra

Deltahedra are polygons built only from equalateral triangles, and by this definition an infinate number of such solids exist. However if we further limit this to convex polyhedra, then only a limited number of such solids exist. All of these are part of other polyhedra sets, which is also the way I have ordered them in that way.

Platonic Deltahedra

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tetrahedron
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octahedron
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icosahedron
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Di-Pyramid Deltahedra

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triangular_dipyramid
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pentagonal_dipyramid
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Other Johnson Deltahedra

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j17_gyroelongated_square_dipyramid
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j51_triaugmented_triangular_prism
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j84_snub_disphenoid
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Non-convex Deltahedra

This as I mentioned above is infinite group, but I hope to give some of the more interesting examples of these deltahedra.

Under Construction


Created: 30 April 2001
Updated: 22 September 2004
Author: Anthony Thyssen, <anthony@cit.gu.edu.au>
URL: http://www.cit.gu.edu.au/~anthony/graphics/polyhedra/