Platonic solids generate their four-dimensional analogues. Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations of Crystallography, 2013; 69 (6): 592 DOI: 10.1107/S0108767313021442; ...

These solids were named after the ancient Greek mathematician Plato. He believed the universe was made of five elements – fire, earth, water, air and spirit – each represented by one of these ...

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Salvatore Torquato and Yang Jiao now report the densest known packings of the 5 Platonic solids (tetrahedron, cube, octahedron, dodecahedron and icosahedron) and 13 Archimedean polyhedra.

Platonic solids, the first class of such shapes, are well-known. They consist of five different shapes: tetrahedron, cube, octahedron, dodecahedron, and icosahedron.