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The solid angle, Ω, at the vertex of a Platonic solid is given in terms of the dihedral angle by Ω = q θ − ( q − 2 ) π . {\displaystyle \Omega =q\theta -(q-2)\pi .\,} This follows from the spherical excess formula for a spherical polygon and the fact that the vertex figure of the polyhedron { p , q } is a regular q -gon.
Truncated icosahedron, one of the Archimedean solids illustrated in De quinque corporibus regularibus. The five Platonic solids (the regular tetrahedron, cube, octahedron, dodecahedron, and icosahedron) were known to della Francesca through two classical sources: Timaeus, in which Plato theorizes that four of them correspond to the classical elements making up the world (with the fifth, the ...
Some Archimedean solids were portrayed in the works of artists and mathematicians during the Renaissance. The elongated square gyrobicupola or pseudorhombicuboctahedron is an extra polyhedron with regular faces and congruent vertices, but it is not generally counted as an Archimedean solid because it is not vertex-transitive .
1 Platonic solids (regular convex polyhedra) W1 to W5. 2 Archimedean solids (Semiregular) W6 to W18. 3 Kepler–Poinsot polyhedra (Regular star polyhedra) W20, ...
Dual Archimedean solid Faces Edges Vertices Face Polygon rhombic triacontahedron (quasi-regular dual: face- and edge-uniform) icosidodecahedron: 30 60 32 rhombus: triakis icosahedron : truncated dodecahedron: 60 90 32 isosceles triangle: pentakis dodecahedron : truncated icosahedron: 60 90 32 isosceles triangle: deltoidal hexecontahedron
The thirteen Archimedean solids. The elongated square gyrobicupola (also called a pseudo-rhombicuboctahedron), a Johnson solid, has identical vertex figures (3.4.4.4) but because of a twist it is not vertex-transitive. Branko Grünbaum argued for including it as a 14th Archimedean solid. An infinite series of convex prisms.
The dual of a regular polyhedron is regular, while the dual of an Archimedean solid is a Catalan solid. The concept of uniform polyhedron is a special case of the concept of uniform polytope, which also applies to shapes in higher-dimensional (or lower-dimensional) space.
The convex regular 4-polytopes are the four-dimensional analogues of the Platonic solids. The most familiar 4-polytope is the tesseract or hypercube, the 4D analogue of the cube. The convex regular 4-polytopes can be ordered by size as a measure of 4-dimensional content (hypervolume) for the same radius.