© solids: Rudolf Hrach[br]© picture: Michael Wodak Medizinfotografie Köln[br]all rights reserved by: Wilfried Dutkowski
The Project [b]Archimedean solids[/b] was born in 2023, when I was asked by students, if stars are only physical objects, or if they are related to geometry. Inspiration of this, was the [b]Herrnhuter star [/b]seen everywhere at Christmas time. Therefore, I designed a GeoGebra-book about stars, which I called [url=https://www.geogebra.org/m/m92pqcja]Sternkörper[/url].[br]While working on this topic, I was motivated by the [b]Platonic solids[/b], polygons and visualisation and projections, which encouraged me to design the book [url=https://www.geogebra.org/m/uw4494ws]Flächen, Körper , Projektionen - Ideen zur Regeometrisierung[/url], based on Adam/Wyss (1984): Platonische und Archimedische Körper, ihre Sternformen und polaren Gebilde. The subject GEOMETRY is more than underrepresented in German schools and more or less a vehicle to use formulas and algebra instead of the content geometry.[br]This provided the final spark and led to my work on Archimedean solids in the book [url=https://www.geogebra.org/m/gf4eezng]Archimedische Körper - Einfach mehr Geometrie wagen[/url]. [br]After that, I gave some lectures and also [url=https://www.geogebra.org/m/drb2zv7j]workshops[/url] on different conferences. It is planned to offer these workshops to schools and interested groups.