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New challenge (to establish a daily routine): Creating one new polytope info card after breakfast - each day.

(That is the first page of the list of the polytopes I want to make. (92 Johnson solids will be very very much, and I have to stop myself from thinking about those many solids. but eeeh. we might approach it step by step... )

So, I started the polytope cards project some time in the summer of this year.

I already made all 5 platonic solids,

some regular 4-polytopes (the 4D platonic solids plus the 24-cell that has no 3D sibling),

and the first 4 archimedian solids.

Today I created the truncated octahedron card:

Yesterday I made the truncated tetrahedron card:

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The general template of the cards is as following:

This project is still in progress.

Furtherly I want to add:

General explanations/index cards/summaries

Baking the ingredients for the shape soup

The ingredients for this very delicious soup need to be baked before they can be used for cooking this well-made yummy shape soup.

So, I'm happy to announce I'm in the midst of digitalizing (scanning and adjusting/slightly editing png files) my isometric polyhedron drawings.

They will be transparent pngs with a hexagonal shape depicted like in the picture above.

One might use them as stickers or play around with pngs like a true tumblrina would.

(I might also make a transparent png set without any hexagonal white background.)

Polytope info card of the Snub Cube

Today's shape was the archimedian solid "Snub cube".

The snub cube has 38 faces in total - 6 square faces and 32 triangular faces.

It has 60 edges and 24 vertices.

Each vertex is met by 4 triangle faces and 1 square face.

A snub cube is an alteration of a truncated cuboctahedron.

The drawing:

For the isometric projection drawing I started with a truncated cuboctahedron, and continued to alter the truncated cuboctahedron's octagonal faces into square faces.