Platonic Solids from the Ground Up | Polytopics
Audience: high-schoolundergraduate
Tags: polyhedra
Polytoot, in excruciating detail, introduces the most well-known polyhedra of all time to anyone who, uh, may not be familiar with 3D space yet. Also, yes, this video did take me way too long to make. I'll be making some smaller videos after this one that hopefully shouldn't take as long. I'm aware that this has some graphical glitches in a few places. If I strived for absolute perfection, though, I'd be working on this until the end of time, because I'm just one person. So, I had to make a few compromises. I don't know when the next polytope video is releasing. I don't even know if anyone's going to want to watch this in the first place! But that's okay.
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This is one of the best videos I’ve ever seen on platonic solids. The explanation is very clear and it answers a question that I’ve also been curious about.
Pihedron
I had seen a few videos explaining platonic solids, but this was the best especially with visualizations. Great job.
The only downside was that it was a bit too verbose. I would make it a bit shorter. (Also you could maybe spend some time talking about their duality. And maybe also the graph theory approach to prove these are the only options. It’s less insightful that the geometric approach, but still fun to see)
Keep up the good word
Extremely beginner-friendly. Very good explanation, building from the ground up.
The cloud robot in the video makes it a bit too childish for me personally. But this is personal.
It was fun to watch; showed the reason there are exactly 5 Platonic solids. The demonstration of a polyhedra and its dual was a very nice touch! I wish the footnotes had been on the screen longer and/or the action on the rest of the screen stopped while the footnote was on the screen. I didn’t know where to look and couldn’t read them all. I loved the enthusiasm that was threaded throughout the video it had me appreciating shapes and symmetry more.
Though this is a topic I have seen covered many times before, the execution of this video is very well done. The pacing is a bit slow, but the video title did say “from the ground up”. The dual part where the tilings were moving was also a bit dizzying, but it still got the point across. While I think this is more geared toward a younger audience than high school/undergrad, it was still fun to watch anyway.
Visualizations are really nice and narrative is easy to follow. In the past, I have spent some time studying symmetries of planar graphs (where 3-connected case are basically solids), it is a really nice topic.
Great video! Good pacing, good humor, and a great visualizations. Only thing that could use some work would be the audio work on the VO, but that’s more to do with nic quality and maybe slightly slowing down so you’re always clear and legible.
I had already seen this video of yours; we talked about it on Discord :) You are very talented, and I would love to reach your level. Best of luck from Italy!