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A regular polyhedron is identified by its Schläfli symbol of the form {n, m}, where n is the number of sides of each face and m the number of faces meeting at each vertex. There are 5 finite convex regular polyhedra (the Platonic solids), and four regular star polyhedra (the Kepler–Poinsot polyhedra), making nine regular polyhedra in all. In ...
It follows that all vertices are congruent, and the polyhedron has a high degree of reflectional and rotational symmetry. Uniform polyhedra can be divided between convex forms with convex regular polygon faces and star forms. Star forms have either regular star polygon faces or vertex figures or both. This list includes these:
For every convex polyhedron, there exists a dual polyhedron having faces in place of the original's vertices and vice versa, and; the same number of edges. The dual of a convex polyhedron can be obtained by the process of polar reciprocation. [34] Dual polyhedra exist in pairs, and the dual of a dual is just the original polyhedron again.
(5, convex, regular) Archimedean solids (13, convex, uniform) Kepler–Poinsot polyhedra (4, regular, non-convex) Uniform polyhedra (75, uniform) Prismatoid: prisms, antiprisms etc. (4 infinite uniform classes) Polyhedra tilings (11 regular, in the plane) Quasi-regular polyhedra Johnson solids (92, convex, non-uniform) Bipyramids Pyramids
A convex polyhedron whose faces are regular polygons is known as a Johnson solid, or sometimes as a Johnson–Zalgaller solid. Some authors exclude uniform polyhedra from the definition. A uniform polyhedron is a polyhedron in which the faces are regular and they are isogonal ; examples include Platonic and Archimedean solids as well as prisms ...
Self-intersecting 5-polytopes are also known as star polytopes, from analogy with the star-like shapes of the non-convex Kepler-Poinsot polyhedra. A uniform 5-polytope has a symmetry group under which all vertices are equivalent, and its facets are uniform 4-polytopes. The faces of a uniform polytope must be regular
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.
In geometry, a Platonic solid is a convex, regular polyhedron in three-dimensional Euclidean space.Being a regular polyhedron means that the faces are congruent (identical in shape and size) regular polygons (all angles congruent and all edges congruent), and the same number of faces meet at each vertex.