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Convex Regular Polytopes

This page is under development. As a minimal start, here are some relevant links:

George Olshevsky's "Polycell's Home Page": this was perhaps the best resource on the Web, but it disappeared from its original URL when AOL shut down their Hometown service. However, the content is still available at the Internet Archive; relevant pages include:
- home page
- The Regular Polyhedra: helpful essay on properties, especially symmetry; pictures and data
For the future, http://www.polychora.com/ may eventually have some content.
John Baez's Platonic solids page
Paul Bourke's 3D Platonic solids page and 4D Platonic solids page: geometrical data, projections and other useful information
Eric W. Weisstein's MathWorld: an on-line maths encyclopedia with many useful articles, including:
- polytope: definitions and most links
- Platonic solid: definition and geometrical data
- polychoron: defining condition for regular polychora
- regular polychoron: definition and geometrical data
- Schläfli symbol: definition and many examples
- Wythoff symbol: definition and examples
- polyhedral formula: generalisation of Euler's formula
David Eppstein's Geometry Junkyard: collection of links
Russell Towle's Polytopes page: lengthy textual exposition with links, including a second chapter
Wikipedia: Uniform polytope, Uniform polychoron

... and where it all started for me:

www.polytope.org sounds promising, but has no useful content about polytopes.