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Net (Polyhedron)

A plane diagram in which the Edges of a Polyhedron are shown. All convex Polyhedra have nets, but not all concave polyhedra do (the constituent Polygons can overlap one another when a concave Polyhedron is flattened out). The Great Dodecahedron and Stella Octangula are examples of a concave polyhedron which have nets.




© 1996-9 Eric W. Weisstein
1999-05-25