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Archimedean Polyhedra
Archimedes, a scientist from Ancient Greece, discovered thirteen types of polyhedra, now called Archimedean solids, referred to as semi-regular polyhedra.
Each of them is limited by different polygons where the polyhedral angles and identical polygons are equal. Furthermore, the same number of equal faces meet at each vertex. In the same order, each of these solids can be inscribed into a sphere.
All these thirteen names make your head spin when you see them for the first time. However, it is possible to sort things out, understand, and remember them.
What all Archimedean solids look like
Which polyhedra forms the basis?
One of the five Platonic polyhedra forms the basis for these 13 types of polyhedra.
What can geometric figures be used to construct the Archimedean polyhedra?
The size of a polyhedra
One of the options is to create a model that fits into the sphere of the standard sizes. Then all 13 polyhedra will look like this:
Another option is to set up the same length for the side of all the polygons, which will be used in the model. The proportion of polygons with the same side length is:
- Triangle;
- Square;
- Pentagon;
- Hexagon;
- Octagon;
- Decagon.
This is what the collection of polyhedra with the same side length will look like:
All arhimedеan solids in Magic Edges sets.
Where to find the nets of Archimedean solids
Nets for all thirteen Archimedes polyhedra can be found in the kit "Magic Edges":
- Truncated tetrahedron;
- Truncated octahedron;
- Truncated cube;
- Cuboctahedron.
- Truncated icosahedron;
- Icosidodecahedron;
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- Rhombicuboctahedron;
- Truncated cuboctahedron
- Truncated dodecahedron;
- Small rhombicosidodecahedron
- Snub cube;
- Snub dodecahedron
- Truncated icosidodecahedron toroid;
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