You can make families of large Platonic solids with triangular faces (deltahedra), made sturdy by `creasing' their edges to become dome-like. The shapes that results are all deltahedra, and although the principles of construction are similar, very few are Lobel frames (presumably since they cannot be cut in a straight manner to make them architecturally interesting). There are three parameters to each family member: The sum of those last two parameters determines the edge length of the result.
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| - You can make families of large Platonic solids with triangular faces (deltahedra), made sturdy by `creasing' their edges to become dome-like. The shapes that results are all deltahedra, and although the principles of construction are similar, very few are Lobel frames (presumably since they cannot be cut in a straight manner to make them architecturally interesting). There are three parameters to each family member: The sum of those last two parameters determines the edge length of the result.
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| - You can make families of large Platonic solids with triangular faces (deltahedra), made sturdy by `creasing' their edges to become dome-like. The shapes that results are all deltahedra, and although the principles of construction are similar, very few are Lobel frames (presumably since they cannot be cut in a straight manner to make them architecturally interesting). There are three parameters to each family member: 1.
* the type of basic Platonic deltahedron: tetrahedron, octahedron or icosahedron (and even the dihedron makes sense) 2.
* the size of a pyramid at the vertex (see building instructions) 3.
* the size of the triangular face (see building instructions) The sum of those last two parameters determines the edge length of the result. Here are some family shots, for the notation see the building instructions. Image:Cpp_v_1_f_s.JPG|(v,1,f) family Image:Cpp_2_p_f_s.JPG|(2,p,f) dihedron family
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