Mesh (geometry)
The mesh (also: body mesh ) or the unfolding of a polyhedron or a geometric body is a diagram that shows its surfaces expanded in the plane after it has been cut open at some edges. Meshes are also used as a template for building body models, but also as an illustration when calculating the area of the surface of the body.
Convolutions can also be generalized to higher dimensions.
Examples
Mesh of a cuboid
Net of a tetrahedron
Mesh of a triangular prism
Network of a cylinder
Mesh of a cone
The network of an oloid is like its track when it rolls off
The three-dimensional network of a tesseract
There are exactly eleven ways to unfold a cube, see cube network .
Web links
- Eric W. Weisstein : Net . In: MathWorld (English).