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List Of Wenninger Polyhedron Models
This is an indexed list of the uniform and stellated polyhedra from the book ''Polyhedron Models'', by Magnus Wenninger. The book was written as a guide book to building polyhedra as physical models. It includes templates of face elements for construction and helpful hints in building, and also brief descriptions on the theory behind these shapes. It contains the 75 nonprismatic uniform polyhedra, as well as 44 stellated forms of the convex regular and quasiregular polyhedra. Models listed here can be cited as "Wenninger Model Number ''N''", or ''W''''N'' for brevity. The polyhedra are grouped in 5 tables: Regular (1–5), Semiregular (6–18), regular star polyhedra (20–22,41), Stellations and compounds (19–66), and uniform star polyhedra (67–119). ''The four regular star polyhedra are listed twice because they belong to both the uniform polyhedra and stellation groupings.'' Platonic solids (regular convex polyhedra) W1 to W5 Archimedean solids (Semiregular) W6 to W18 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Magnus Wenninger
Father Magnus J. Wenninger OSB (October 31, 1919Banchoff (2002)– February 17, 2017) was an American mathematician who worked on constructing polyhedron models, and wrote the first book on their construction. Early life and education Born to German immigrants in Park Falls, Wisconsin, Joseph Wenninger always knew he was going to be a priest. From an early age, it was understood that his brother Heinie would take after their father and become a baker, and that Joe, as he was then known, would go into the priesthood. When Wenninger was thirteen, after graduating from the parochial school in Park Falls, Wisconsin, his parents saw an advertisement in the German newspaper ''Der Wanderer'' that would help to shape the rest of his life. The ad was for a preparatory school in Collegeville, Minnesota, associated with the Benedictine St. John's University. While admitting to feeling homesick at first, Wenninger quickly made friends and, after a year, knew that this was where he needed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Icosahedron
In geometry, an icosahedron ( or ) is a polyhedron with 20 faces. The name comes and . The plural can be either "icosahedra" () or "icosahedrons". There are infinitely many non- similar shapes of icosahedra, some of them being more symmetrical than others. The best known is the (convex, non-stellated) regular icosahedron—one of the Platonic solids—whose faces are 20 equilateral triangles. Regular icosahedra There are two objects, one convex and one nonconvex, that can both be called regular icosahedra. Each has 30 edges and 20 equilateral triangle faces with five meeting at each of its twelve vertices. Both have icosahedral symmetry. The term "regular icosahedron" generally refers to the convex variety, while the nonconvex form is called a ''great icosahedron''. Convex regular icosahedron The convex regular icosahedron is usually referred to simply as the ''regular icosahedron'', one of the five regular Platonic solids, and is represented by its Schläfli symbol , co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Truncated Cube
In geometry, the truncated cube, or truncated hexahedron, is an Archimedean solid. It has 14 regular faces (6 octagonal and 8 triangular), 36 edges, and 24 vertices. If the truncated cube has unit edge length, its dual triakis octahedron has edges of lengths 2 and 2 + . Area and volume The area ''A'' and the volume ''V'' of a truncated cube of edge length ''a'' are: :\begin A &= 2\left(6+6\sqrt+\sqrt\right)a^2 &&\approx 32.434\,6644a^2 \\ V &= \fraca^3 &&\approx 13.599\,6633a^3. \end Orthogonal projections The ''truncated cube'' has five special orthogonal projections, centered, on a vertex, on two types of edges, and two types of faces: triangles, and octagons. The last two correspond to the B2 and A2 Coxeter planes. Spherical tiling The truncated cube can also be represented as a spherical tiling, and projected onto the plane via a stereographic projection. This projection is conformal, preserving angles but not areas or lengths. Straight lines on the sphere are pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Truncated Octahedron Vertfig
Truncation is the term used for limiting the number of digits right of the decimal point by discarding the least significant ones. Truncation may also refer to: Mathematics * Truncation (statistics) refers to measurements which have been cut off at some value * Truncation (numerical analysis) refers to truncating an infinite sum by a finite one * Truncation (geometry) is the removal of one or more parts, as for example in truncated cube * Propositional truncation, a type former which truncates a type down to a mere proposition Computer science * Data truncation, an event that occurs when a file or other data is stored in a location too small to accommodate its entire length * Truncate (SQL), a command in the SQL data manipulation language to quickly remove all data from a table Biology * Truncate, a leaf shape * Truncated protein, a protein shortened by a mutation which specifically induces premature termination of messenger RNA translation Other uses * Cheque truncation, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Truncated Octahedron
In geometry, the truncated octahedron is the Archimedean solid that arises from a regular octahedron by removing six pyramids, one at each of the octahedron's vertices. The truncated octahedron has 14 faces (8 regular hexagons and 6 squares), 36 edges, and 24 vertices. Since each of its faces has point symmetry the truncated octahedron is a 6-zonohedron. It is also the Goldberg polyhedron GIV(1,1), containing square and hexagonal faces. Like the cube, it can tessellate (or "pack") 3-dimensional space, as a permutohedron. The truncated octahedron was called the "mecon" by Buckminster Fuller. Its dual polyhedron is the tetrakis hexahedron. If the original truncated octahedron has unit edge length, its dual tetrakis hexahedron has edge lengths and . Construction A truncated octahedron is constructed from a regular octahedron with side length 3''a'' by the removal of six right square pyramids, one from each point. These pyramids have both base side length (''a'') and lateral s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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