Poly-Snaps: Tiles for Building Polyhedra

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These tiles snap together to make polyhedra of any type you wish! Regular, semi-regular, truncated, stellated, or freaky; you decide. Download the pre-made sets of compact or light Poly-Snap tiles, or customize your own using the included .scad file. The compact tiles are the blue, white, and black ones in the main picture; they are sturdy and difficult to snap together, so they make very strong models you can toss around. The light tiles are larger and shown in the red picture; these are easier to take apart and put together and print up very quickly, but the models are a little less sturdy. Depending on your printer and the filament, temperature, elevation from sea level, day of the week, etc, you may need different tolerances for your snaps; you can modify these things by changing pararameters in the .scad file using the free program OpenSCAD. Detailed walkthroughs of how we used OpenSCAD to make Poly-Snaps to construct particular models are at the links below. Truncated Tetrahedron Octahedron Truncated Octahedron Snub Cube Icosidodecahedron Icosahedron ===== Twitter:  twitter.com/mathgrrl Hacktastic blog:  mathgrrl.com/hacktastic Shapeways geekhaus store:  shapeways.com/shops/mathgrrl This design and all associated pictures and files are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike license. If you want to use designs, images, or files outside of the terms of this license, please email [email protected].

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