HyperGami
Polyhedral Playground
HyperGami and HyperGami creations use polyhedra as the building blocks for paper sculpture. The shapes shown below are the Platonic (or Regular) solids: a special family of polyhedra in which each polyhedron is made up of a single type of regular polygon.
- Click on one of the polyhedra in the photo. You will
see its folding net appear in the window to the right.
- Use the paint tools at the bottom of the screen to decorate the net.
- Once the net is decorated, print the net to a color printer by
printing the entire screen, or by using a freeware utility such
as Flash-It to snap a region of the screen.
Download Flash-It now.
- Then cut, glue, and assemble the
net into a mathematical paper model. It helps to leave "tabs"
on the edges as you are trimming the net.
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