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Educational resource explores origami models of Platonic and Archimedean solids

A math education resource outlines the properties of Platonic Solids, the five regular polyhedra whose faces are identical regular polygons, and Archimedean Solids, which use multiple types of regular polygons but maintain uniform vertices. It notes there are exactly five Platonic Solids and thirteen Archimedean Solids, two of which are mirror images of each other, and points readers to 3D models on the Polypad platform for further exploration.

Free site offers hundreds of downloadable paper polyhedra nets

A website hosts several hundred paper models of polyhedra, the geometric solids that have long drawn interest from mathematicians and artists. Visitors can browse pictures of the shapes and click through to printable nets that let them assemble the models themselves at no cost.