{"id":71,"date":"2022-11-29T23:16:14","date_gmt":"2022-11-29T23:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.matthew-morris.com\/wp2\/?p=71"},"modified":"2023-06-19T22:16:28","modified_gmt":"2023-06-19T22:16:28","slug":"making-platonic-solids-out-of-playing-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.matthew-morris.com\/wp2\/uncategorized\/making-platonic-solids-out-of-playing-cards\/","title":{"rendered":"Making platonic solids out of playing cards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Yet another very niche post. Would you like to do this?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/img.wonderhowto.com\/img\/17\/08\/63453892360248\/0\/make-platonic-solids-out-playing-cards.w1456.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This image is taken from <a href=\"https:\/\/mathcraft.wonderhowto.com\/how-to\/make-platonic-solids-out-playing-cards-0130512\/\">https:\/\/mathcraft.wonderhowto.com\/how-to\/make-platonic-solids-out-playing-cards-0130512\/<\/a> &#8211; however the templates document that this page refers to is no longer available, and there&#8217;s no information on the underlying maths either.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m trying to figure out how to build more complex stuff of this type, so I figured it was worth sitting down and working it out from scratch. See below for both the maths, and the cut angles for all 5 platonic solids.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><object class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"https:\/\/www.matthew-morris.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Polyhedra-1.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of Polyhedra-1.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-0dcfac6a-1632-4152-b187-e75f6bad7ab3\" href=\"https:\/\/www.matthew-morris.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Polyhedra-1.pdf\">Polyhedra-1<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.matthew-morris.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Polyhedra-1.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-0dcfac6a-1632-4152-b187-e75f6bad7ab3\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yet another very niche post. Would you like to do this? This image is taken from https:\/\/mathcraft.wonderhowto.com\/how-to\/make-platonic-solids-out-playing-cards-0130512\/ &#8211; however the templates document that this page refers to is no longer available, and there&#8217;s no information on the underlying maths either. I&#8217;m trying to figure out how to build more complex stuff of this type, so &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.matthew-morris.com\/wp2\/uncategorized\/making-platonic-solids-out-of-playing-cards\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Making platonic solids out of playing cards&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matthew-morris.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matthew-morris.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matthew-morris.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matthew-morris.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matthew-morris.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.matthew-morris.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":117,"href":"https:\/\/www.matthew-morris.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions\/117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matthew-morris.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matthew-morris.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matthew-morris.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}