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Convex polytopes with convex nets

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

G. C. Shephard
G. C. Shephard
Affiliation:
University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ, England
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The idea of a net will be familiar to anyone who has made a model of a three-dimensional convex polytope (3-polytope) out of a flat sheet of card or similar material. To begin with, one cuts out a polygon, and then the model is formed by folding this and joining its edges in an appropriate manner. For example, Fig. 1 illustrates two nets for a regular tetrahedron. The folds are indicated by broken lines and lettering (either of the edges or of the vertices) indicates how the edges are to be joined.

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Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 78 , Issue 3 , November 1975 , pp. 389 - 403
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1975

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