The regular polyhedra are five
A way to see why there are only 5 regular polyhedra: we can't use equilateral triangles as faces of a polyhedron by putting 6 triangles around each vertex because we would get a plane tessellation.
The image has been realized for the exhibition Simmetria, giochi di specchi - Symmetry, playing with mirrors.
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All together (3D geometry)
