Aisle 6No. 102 of 460
Splashery
Platonic Solids
439,990 small parts. Assembled in your browser.
Empty. Now look down.
Swipe across the pack to tear it open.
Press and hold. It pulls itself together.
Let go to drop it.
It stays in its pack here. The Playground has the rest.
Math · Built from a recipe
Platonic Solids
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).
Play with it in the Playground
How to play
Tap to explode it. Hands-on: pull the faces off one by one and fit them back.
Toy facts
- Item
- No. 102 of 460
- Shelf
- Aisle 6, Math
- Kind
- Built from a recipe
- Small parts
- 439,990
- Sound
- Yes
- Hands-on
- Yes
- Batteries
- None
- Assembly
- It does that itself
- Licenses
- Own work (made in the page)
- Price
- $0.00
Small parts are the splats in its usual build on a computer. A phone may draw fewer.
Its controls
| Control | Kind | Range | Start |
|---|---|---|---|
| Explode | Tap | ||
| Explode | Switch | Off | |
| Solid | List | 5 choices | Dodecahedron |
| Colors | List | 4 choices | Ocean |
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.
