Cosmic Figures
Cosmic figures are often known as...
Platonic shapes
We see the affect of polyhedrons in modern architecture and...
Statues
Polyhedra means many _____ in Greek.
Faces
This Greek philosopher came up with the term cosmic figure.
Plato
Polyhedron can satisfy the need for...
Visual order
There are __ Archimedean Solids.
13
This cosmic figure represents Earth.
The cube
Polyhedrons have affected architecture for ____ years
Thousands
This famous Renaissance artist often used polyhedrons in his art.
Leonardo da Vinci
This cosmic figure has twelve sides.
The dodecahedron
One example of a polyhedron in architecture from history is...
The pyramids
Polyhedrons in art are often used to demonstrate the laws of...
Perspective
Greek philosophers associated the dodecahedron with the cosmos other wise known as...
Heaven
The basic polyhedron that makes it possible for skyscrapers to stand is a...
Straight Prism
A figure must have these three characteristics to be classified as a polyhedral shape.
Three dimensional, flat polygon faces, and straight edges