‘The Greeks recognized that there are only five platonic solids. But why is this so? The key observation is that the interior angles of the polygons meeting at a vertex of a polyhedron add to less than 360 degrees.’ (Read more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platonic_solid ; July 26, 2012).
A polygon is said to be regular if the edges are of equal length and meet at equal angles. A polygon is convex if the line connecting any two points inside the polygon is itself entirely inside the polygon.
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Plate5 Tetrahedron (Four Vertexes /Four Faces) |
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Exercise #02: Make a Tetrahedron and create graphic design on all faces maintaining the character of the surface planes.
The simplest of these shapes is the Tetrahedron (plate5), a four-sided faces solid bounded by equilateral triangles on all sides having four vertexes. Packaging industry widely uses the principle of tetrahedron for various products.
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