NETS OF POLYHEDRA

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Net (polyhedron)

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A net of a regular dodecahedron

The eleven nets of a cube

In geometry a net of a polyhedron is an arrangement of edge-joined polygons in the plane which can be folded (along edges) to become the faces of the polyhedron. Polyhedral nets are a useful aid to the study of polyhedra and solid geometry in general, as they allow for physical models of polyhedra to be constructed from material such as thin cardboard.^[1]

An early instance of polyhedral nets appears in the works of Albrecht Dürer, whose 1525 book Unterweysung der Messung mit dem Zyrkel und Rychtscheyd included nets for the Platonic solids and several of the Archimedean solids.^[2]

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Drawings made by "2015/16 3rd. level" students