If it sounds gobbledygook, a dodecahedron is a 12-sided polygon, or think about a mutating cube that’s grown another six sides. That’s what Canada’s Nanoleaf brings to the table with its new ...

The resulting surface is a highly redundant representation of the dodecahedron, with 10 copies of each pentagon. And it’s massively more complicated: It glues up into a shape like a doughnut with 81 ...

Mathematicians have spent more than 2,000 years dissecting the structure of the five Platonic solids—the tetrahedron, cube, octahedron, icosahedron, and dodecahedron—but there’s still a lot ...

THERE are five Platonic solids of perfect symmetry. Three, the tetrahedron, octahedron and icosahedron, have triangular faces. A fourth, the cube, has square faces. The fifth, the dodecahedron ...

So Bell opted to engrave his calendar on a rhombic-dodecahedron, which comprises 12 four-sided, diamond-shaped faces. “It is such a complicated shape,” Bell says of the final, tilted ...

A net in maths is a flat 2D shape that can be cut out and folded to form the 3D shape. Put another way, a net is a plane figure composed of polygons, that by folding and joining can form a polyhedron.

Mathematicians have described 1 a new class of shape that characterizes forms commonly found in nature — from the chambers in the iconic spiral shell of the nautilus to the way in which seeds ...

Learn more about 3D shapes and nets with this BBC Bitesize Maths article. For students between the ages of 11 and 14.