Great Math Software: Polyhedrons and Polytopes

By Xah Lee. Date: . Last updated: .

A list of great math software that do polyhedron.

KaleidoTile

kaleidoTileScreen
kaleidoTile

http://www.geometrygames.org/KaleidoTile/index.html Windows macOS iPhone Mac OS 9

KaleidoTile does interactive polyhedron software by Jeff Weeks. You can see how some polyhedra can be generated by mirroring tiles in space, and how one transforms into another. All this in real-time with dynamic control.

Stella

great stella
great stella

http://www.software3d.com/Stella.html Windows

Stella and Great Stella These are great polyherons programs that the author intended to be the ultimate one, and it truely is a excellent program. This is probably the most comprehensive software for polyhedrons. Author is by Robert Webb. (2004-01, 2018-06-24)

Stewart Coffin's The Puzzling World of Polyhedral Dissections

Stewart Coffin's The Puzzling World of Polyhedral Dissections, now online free at: Source johnrausch.com

This book specify in detail a whole type of puzzles that is made of interlocking blocks of various shapes that assemble into regular polyhedrons or beautiful objects of such symmetry.

Magic Polyhedrons

Kawai MP9000 piano dodecahedron
magic dodecahedron

see Magic Polyhedrons

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