Colouring Patterns

When you have been sitting at a computer display for a long time, you become stiff and need to relax well away from electronic systems. An ideal way to do this is to print out a pattern and then colour it in using crayons, felt tip pens, or water colours.

A sample set of polyhedral patterns is listed below, they have been made using the RISCOS program, "!PolySymm" mostly using the "wire" display option coloured black so that both the front and back can be seen at the same time.

Each pattern is a Drawfile which has a shaded 3D model of the polyhedron at top left,
a name in the centre and a line drawing of the pattern below.
RISCOS users can unpack the Drawfiles from the file patterns.zip, which also has instructions for how to make your own.
Users of other systems can find them in the file patterns.pdf

The list below describes the patterns we have made so far:

• C001 Truncated icosahedron seen along a 5 fold axis
• C002 Truncated icosahedron seen along a 3 fold axis
• C003 Truncated icosahedron seen along a 2 fold axis rotated a little
• C004 great icosahedron seen along a 5 fold axis front and back
• C005 great icosahedron seen along a 5 fold axis just front
• C006 great icosahedron seen along a 3 fold axis just front
• C007 great icosahedron seen along a 3 fold axis front and back
• C008 pentakis dodecahedron seen along a 5 fold axis
• C009 pentakis dodecahedron seen along a 3 fold axis
• C010 Truncated icosahedron ( not stanard faces) seen along a 3 fold axis
• C011 Truncated icosahedron ( not stanard faces) seen along a 5 fold axis
• 23rd stellation of the Icosahedron
  • C012 seen along a 3 fold symmetry front and back
  • C013 seen along a 5 fold symmetry front and back
  • C014 seen along a 3 fold symmetry front
• Compound of 5 cubes
  • C015 seen along a 5 fold symmetry
  • C016 seen along a 3 fold symmetry
  • C017 seen along a 3 fold symmetry just front
• C018 great stellated dodecahedron 5 fold symmetry
• C019 small stellated dodecahedron 5 fold symmetry
• C020 snub cube seen along a 4 fold symmetry