Tag: Platonic

As a follow-up to my last article about convex hulls, we will use that skill to visualize the famous platonic solids. Platonic Solids are a unique set of three-dimensional shapes with specific properties that have fascinated mathematicians and scientists for centuries. Each face, edge, and angle wit...

The Platonic solids are prominent in the philosophy of Plato, their namesake. Plato wrote about them in the dialogue Timaeus c. 360 B.C. in which he associated each of the four classical elements (earth, air, water, and fire) with a regular solid. Earth was associated with the cube, air with the oct...