Generating Regular Seeds
All of the five regular polyhedra can be generated from prismatic generators with zero to two operators:
- Triangular pyramid: Y3 (A tetrahedron is a special pyramid)
- T = Y3
- O = aY3 (Rectified tetrahedron)
- C = daY3 (dual to rectified tetrahedron)
- I = sY3 (snub tetrahedron)
- D = dsY3 (dual to snub tetrahedron)
- Triangular antiprism: A3 (An octahedron is a special antiprism)
- O = A3
- C = dA3
- Square prism: P4 (A cube is a special prism)
- C = P4
- Pentagonal antiprism: A5
- I = k5A5 (A special gyroelongated dipyramid)
- D = t5dA5 (A special truncated trapezohedron)
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