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Prisms and antiprisms

Kepler, 1619

Two copies of a regular polygon joined by a band. Twist the top by half a step and the squares of the prism fold into pairs of triangles: the antiprism. Both families run on forever, one for every polygon.

twist τ ∈ [0, π/n]

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