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Icosahedron facts for kids

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Icosahedron

An icosahedron is a Platonic solid that is made of triangles and has twenty sides.

Images for kids

  • Icosahedral tensegrity structure

    A tensegrity icosahedron

  • Icosahedron-spinoza

    A detail of Spinoza monument in Amsterdam

  • Truncated octahedron internal rectangles

    Construction from the vertices of a truncated octahedron, showing internal rectangles.

  • A3-P5-P3

    Progressions between an octahedron, pseudoicosahedron, and cuboctahedron. The cuboctahedron can flex this way even if its edges (but not its faces) are rigid.

  • Rhombic icosahedron

    Rhombic icosahedron

See also

Kids robot.svg In Spanish: Icosaedro para niños

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