Therefore we can only make five Platonic solids. Image caption, These solids were named after the ancient Greek mathematician Plato. He believed the universe was made of five elements – fire ...

A polygon is regular if it is uniform and its faces are all alike. The regular convex polyhedra are the five Platonic solids, which have been known since classical Greece. The ancient Greek ...

Sacred geometry appears all throughout nature. The arrangement of leaves on a stem, the spiral patterns of pinecones, the ...

A 3D shape with regular polygonal faces, meeting at equal angles, is a platonic solid. There are five platonic solids, the tetrahedron, cube, octahedron, dodecahedron and icosahedron. A prism is a ...