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Platonic Solids · 3D

Cube

{4,3} · Earth

Cube, drawn as a glowing line figure

Six squares, stable and grounded. Tilt it onto a corner and it becomes a hexagon: the cube hidden in Metatron’s Cube.

Vertices
8
Edges
12
Faces
6
Dihedral
90°

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Turn it in your hands, strike it to hear the chord of its edges, slice it with a plane or lift it into four dimensions.

Facts

  • Seen corner-on, its shadow is a regular hexagon with a “Y” inside.
  • Its dual is the octahedron: centre of each face → a vertex.
  • Two tetrahedra fit inside it, using alternate corners.
  • It is the only Platonic solid that fills space by itself.

History and meaning

Plato gave the cube to earth, the most stable element. Squares sit firmly on any face.

Across the dimensions

  • Cell of TesseractDrag the cube through the fourth direction: the tesseract. Squash W flat and the cube returns.
  • Dual Octahedron

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