Portal:Mathematics/Featured picture/2012 07
Picture of the month
Credit: Debivort
A tetrahedron can be placed in 12 distinct but equivalent positions by rotation alone. This tetrahedral symmetry is illustrated here in the cycle graph format, along with the 180° edge rotations (blue arrows) and 120° vertex rotations (reddish arrows) that permute the tetrahedron through the positions. The 12 rotations form one symmetry group of the figure.
| ...Archive | Read more... |