Nets for Regular Spherical Models
Nets for Regular Spherical Models
This Demonstration shows some regular spherical models and their nets. A spherical polyhedron is defined by the arcs that are the central projections of the edges of a polyhedron to the sphere. In the case of Wenninger's spherical models, each face of a polyhedron is divided into right-angled triangles that consist of a vertex of the face, midpoint of an edge that adjoins the vertex, and the center of the face. In the case of a triangular face, there are six such triangles. If the polyhedron is regular, these triangles are Mรถbius triangles. We get Wenninger's model if all three sides of each triangle are included. If only one leg is included, we get a regular model. If the other leg is included, we get the dual model. If the hypotenuse is the only side, we get the spherical model of the convex hull of the preceding two models.
Example 1: tetrahedron, tetrahedron, cube.
Example 2: cube, octahedron, rhombic dodecahedron.
Example 3: dodecahedron, icosahedron, triacontahedron.