Geometric Models

See also the similar list in David Eppstein's Geometry Junkyard.

This list of links is part of the ISAMA online Directory of the Arts, Mathematics and Architecture.

Please send suggestions for additional entries to the webmaster.

Polydron,

plastic polygons that click together along hinges.

Polymorf,

a similar, new polygon construction system, which even allows more than two polygons to be attached around a single edge.

Geofix geoshapes,

plastic polygons that click together along hinges.

Clixi,

plastic polygons that click together along hinges. (Website in German.)

TIKO,

Plastic polygons with hinges from Rantis in St.Petersburg. (Website in Russian.)

JOVO,

plastic polygons that click together along hinges.

Pedagoguery models,

die-cast metal Platonic and Archimedean polyedra

Zometool,

plastic struts that join in a 31-zone system, especially good for icosahedral symmetries. See also George Hart's Zometool book.

Glass Klein Bottles,

available from Village Games in London, or Acme Klein Bottles in Berkeley (run by Cliff Stoll).

Hoberman,

Expandagon kits, and Hoberman expanding spheres.

Fractiles,

magnetic tiles for 7-fold symmetric quasiperiodic tilings.

SpaceCubes,

a puzzle with six plastic U-shapes which hold each other in a cubical shape.

Astro-logix,

a new construction kit from Britain, with flexible tubes and four types of connectors, which should be available in late 2001.

TekKit

flexible hub and strut model system from TekStar.

Beevers Minature Models

crystallography models from the University of Edinburgh.

Foster Models

Conic surfaces, intersecting cylinders, etc., intended for calculus teaching.

MathArtFun

Robert Fathauer's store, with tessellations, polyhedra and lots more.

i-Gami

Folding plastic pieces inspired by origami.

itsphun

Interlocking Triangles, Squares, Pentagons, and Hexagons Using Notches.

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