Splashery
Platonic Solids, a still.
Playground

Platonic Solids

Math, built from a recipe. Row 5, column 23 of the code.

The Platonic solids are the only five convex polyhedra whose faces are all the same regular shape, meeting in the same way at every corner: the tetrahedron (4 triangles), the cube (6 squares), the octahedron (8 triangles), the dodecahedron (12 pentagons) and the icosahedron (20 triangles).

Shelf
Math
Kind
Built from a recipe
Sound
Yes
Hands-on
Yes
Licenses
Own work (made in the page)

How to play

Tap to explode it. Hands-on: pull the faces off one by one and fit them back.

Its controls

ControlKindRangeStart
ExplodeTap
ExplodeSwitchOff
SolidList5 choicesDodecahedron
ColorsList4 choicesOcean

About it

The Platonic solids are the only five convex polyhedra whose faces are all the same regular shape, meeting in the same way at every corner: the tetrahedron (4 triangles), the cube (6 squares), the octahedron (8 triangles), the dodecahedron (12 pentagons) and the icosahedron (20 triangles). They are named after the Greek thinker Plato, and Euclid proved there can be no others.

It starts as a dodecahedron. Tap it to explode its faces apart; tap again to put them back. Pick any of the five solids, and its colors, in the Splash tab. Many game dice come in these shapes. With ✋ Hands-on on, pull the faces off one by one and lay them down; bring each back near its place and it fits back in.

Details

Splats
Opens at 200,000 at Mid Detail, 60,002 at Low, and up to 620,000 at Max

Sources and credits

Made in Splashery. Its code is MIT.

Share it

The back of the picture is this page's QR code: flip it, and point a phone at it. This link opens it in the Playground. To put it on your own page, add the element and one script tag. Every option.

https://splashery.app/play/?toy=platonic
<script type="module" src="https://splashery.app/play/src/element.js"></script>
<splashery-toy toy="platonic"></splashery-toy>

Nearby in the collection