Steven Dutch, Professor Emeritus, Natural and Applied Sciences, Universityof Wisconsin - Green Bay
These are Schlegel Nets; that is, one face (usually the one with the most edges) hasbeen selected as a base and the polyhedron flattened into a plane within the enclosingpolygon. To help with identifying faces, they are color-coded as follows:
Also, we are only concerned with topologically distinct polyhedra, that is, differingin number or type of faces and vertices. Thus, a triangular prism and a tetrahedron withone vertex truncated are topologically equivalent 5-hedra, a cube and rhombohedron aretopologically equivalent 6-hedra, and so on.
General Notes on polyhedron Enumeration
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Created 10 June 1998, Last Update 11 June, 2020