Archimedean Lantern | Truncated Tetrahedron | English
Channel: IISER Pune Science Activity Centre
Date: 2022-11-26

Today we will learn how to make a Truncated Tetrahedron. For that, we need some coloured paper, a scale, glue or a stapler, scissor etc. Take a printout on coloured paper from the link given in the description box. After cutting with scissors, you will get such cutouts. Fold all the lines inside the cut-out with the scale. Now you have to connect the cutouts in such a way that while connecting, connect the flap on the paper which has a star to the star and connect the flap which has a hash to the hash. Thus, when all the flaps are joined to the side flaps, we see Truncated Tetrahedron formed.
This Truncated Tetrahedron has 8 faces, 18 sides and 12 vertices. It is Polyhedron.
Install the bulb in the solid and make it a sky lantern.

Template for making Truncated Tetrahedron: 
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sBr_TNBUoP_TvnfXerH7shkr1DKm0TEG/view?usp=sharing

Team: Prof. M.S. Santhanam, Prof. Kundan Sengupta, Dr. Aparna Deshpande, Shubhangi Wankhede, Ashok Rupner, Dr. Chaitanya Mungi, Ankish Tirpude, Tejal Vyas, Neha Apte, Rashmi Bahulkar, Manisha Ghale and Rohit Piwal.