Wednesday, November 30, 2011

The cube






In geometry, a cube is a three-dimensional solid object bounded by six square faces, facets or sides, with three meeting at each vertex.






The cube can also be called a regular hexahedron and is one of the five Platonic solids. It is a special kind of square prism, of rectangular parallelepiped and of trigonal trapezohedron.


 


 
The cube is dual to the octahedron. It has cubical symmetry (also called octahedral symmetry). It is special by being a cuboid and a rhombohedron.




2 comments:

Robopsychologist said...

nice! You may also find cubes within cubes (cubicles). People live there sometimes

Astro Nayths said...

Indeed, this post was in a more...."abstract mood" :)
Thank u.