Last week I highlighted an irregular polyhedron as the word of the day. In my research, however, I found that quite a few polyhedra have very interesting names. And frankly, I’ve been feeling a little guilty that I only chose one as the word of the day last week.
So in the interest of fairness, I decided to make a list of some other outstanding polyhedra. Now, I understand that not all my readers are fans of geometry, so to that end, I have also included the names of some characters from WC Fields movies. See if you can tell which is which.
- Rhombitruncated Cuboctahedron
- Gyrobifastigium
- Elmer Prettywillie
- Bilunabirotunda
- Baby Elwood Dunk
- Gyroelongated Cupolarotunda
- Snub Disphenoid
- Otis Criblecoblis
- Great Ditrigonal Dodecicosidodecahedron
- Professor Eustance McGargle
- Frustum
- Disphenocingulum
- Plumber’s Nightmare
