It is most fun and most rewarding to make a shape you yourself create rather than following someone else’s plans.
MARION WALTER
from ‘Constructing Polyhedra Without Being Told How To!’
fig. 1
circle
It’s a simple problem, really—all you need to do is visualize it.
fig. 2
cone
Either you want to keep it, or you don’t.
fig. 3
cylinder
But what if it’s too late and you have to keep it?
fig. 4
regular tetrahedron
Or what if you do want to keep it, but you still end up losing it?
fig. 5
square-based pyramid
Will you even be able to live with yourself knowing that, at one point, you didn’t want to keep it?
fig. 6
cube
What about if you do want to keep it now, but then you discover later on that you don’t want it?
fig. 7
pentagonal prism
Or, worse yet, if it doesn’t want you?
fig. 8
regular octahedron
Is it even capable of knowing that you exist yet?
fig. 9
elongated square pyramid
Does it even know that it exists?
fig. 10
augmented tridiminshed icosahedron
And how do you plan on telling them about it?
fig. 11
augmented hexagonal prism
Will they be angry with you if you choose to keep it?
fig. 12
regular dodecahedron
Will they still look after you if you don’t?
fig. 13
gyroelongated square pyramid
Can you afford for this to happen?
fig. 14
cuboctahedron
How is it going to work?
fig. 15
elongated pentagonal bipyramid
Will it hurt?
fig. 16
pentagonal bipyramid
How much is it going to hurt?
fig. 17
triaugmented hexagonal prism
Are you willing to go through that kind of pain for it?
fig. 18
quadaugmented cube
Are you willing to make sacrifices for it?
fig. 19
heptadecagonal prism
Are you willing to let it take things from you that you’ll never get back?
fig. 20
regular icosahedron
And if not, will there be a chance to have another one?
pl. 1
sphere
Or is this it? (see fig. 1)