This text is an excerpt of Chapter 9 of R. Maeder's book The Mathematica Programmer II . The metric properties and graphics data were computed with a Mathematica program, developed by R. Maeder, based on a C program by Zvi Har'El . The Mathematica programs to compute and render the polyhedra are included on the CD-ROM that comes with The Mathematica Programmer II . The book contains also high-resolution color images of all uniform polyhedra. There is one page for each polyhedron with a high-resolution image and geometrical information.
Animations See the polyhedra spin about a symmetry axis for better visualization.
The animations are linked through the high-resolution images on the individual polyhedra pages. The animations use a rather high number of frames for smoother motion and are, therefore, quite large. The vertex configuration is the sequence of faces arranged around a vertex. Since vertices are congruent, this sequence is the same for all vertices. Some polyhedra contain retrograde faces.