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From: fontenot@rice.edu (Dwayne Jacques Fontenot)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Need references on drawing 3d regular polygonal solids
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Date: 9 Sep 90 09:59:06 GMT
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Hello.

I have been searching the standard references (Foley & van Dam, Rogers, etc.)
and have not been able to find and discussion of drawing 3d regular solids ; 
pyramid, cube, octahedron, icosahedron, dodecahedron, etc...

It seems that the only possible regular polygonal solids that can exist have
numbers of sides equivalent to members of the Pythagorean series.
I want to know why this is (as well as how to draw them ; I have access to
a 3d graphics package).

Ideally I could get pointers to proofs and algorithms.

				Thank you for your time.
					
						Dwayne Fontenot