Polyhedral models

Most of these models are available in 2 formats, !Draw for RISCOS computers, and PDF for others. To make the models you will need:

• For the !Draw format
  
  • A RISCOS computer
  • !SparkPlug (from David Pilling)
• For the PDF format
  
  • Any computer with a PDF reader which allows you to print from it.
• A printer
• Some method of cutting out paper or thin card
• Quick-drying paper glue

Models to download

• Dodecahedral calendar
• a Stellated Octahedron makes a pretty Christmas tree decoration
• a posy of tulips
• a Mobile using all 5 of the Platonic solids
• a space filling stack of Rhombic dodecahedra
• examples of all the possible crystal classes made into boxes
• we also have some polyhedral models to aid in Bell ringing.

Some of these models are stellations of polyhedra, Click here for an explanation of how this is done.

• A Dodecahedral calendar for 2024 zipped Draw file (download size 26K),
  PDF (size 11K).
  
  
•   Click here for instructions to make a Christmas Tree decoration from a stellated octahedron.
  
  
•   A posy of 'tulips'
  We first had these on display at the Wakefield Show 2001.
  
  
•   A 'Platonic' mobile,
  
  
•   A stack of Rhombic dodecahedra,