WebGL interactive polyhedra

Platonic solids


tetrahedron

octahedron

cube

icosahedron

dodecahedron

A few Archimedean solids


cuboctahedron

truncated
octahedron

great rhomb-
icosidodecahedron

icosidodecahedron

truncated
icosahedron

Other solids


great icosahedron

Tetrahedron
FiveCompound

Tetrahedron
TenCompound

CubeFiveCompound
This script draws polyhedra with convex faces. To make a polyhedron you can just copy vertices and indexes from the Wolfram Mathematica 7 Notebook and insert them into a html page.

Fractal sponges

See Making fractal sponge.

tetrahedral sponge

octahedral sponge

menger sponge

stellated sponge

Sam Gratrix's very nice (but complicated a bit :) WebGL Uniform Polyhedra (listed by Wythoff Symbols).

See also Java based Interactive polyhedra and George W. Hart's "Encyclopedia of Polyhedra".


WebGL examples     updated 20 Jan 2011