Kind 1: Lawfuls


The lawfuls are samehirns, samedges, and sameflats, and also have lawful flats and hircs. The five undented ones have been known for forever, these are the Platonic shapes. The self-met ones were known but not said to be lawful until Johannas Kepler in 1619 (sistuf, gistuf) and Louis Poinsot in 1809 (gituf, gitwen), and are hence named the Kepler-Poinsot shapes as to acknowledge them.


1. Fewf - (FEOF) fourflat. Flats are four threesides. It has four hirns and a threeside for a hirsc. Showing is x3o3o, also s4o s and s s s as a twoside withersawn. [OBSA: tet]

2. Wyr - (WÜR) wirple. Flats are six foursides. It has eight hirns with a threeside for a hirsc. Showing is x4o3o, also x4o x as a fourside sawn and x x x as a box. [OBSA: cube]

3. Aht - (AKHT) eightflat. Flats are eight threesides and six hirns, fourside for a hirsc. Showing is o4o3x, also o3x3o as a righted fewf and s6o s and s3s s as a threeside withersawn. [OBSA: oct]

4. Twef - (TWEF) twelflat. Flats are twelve fivesides. This has twenty hirns and a threeside for a hirsc. Showing is x5o3o, no others. [OBSA: doe]

5. Twen - (TWEN) twentiflat. Flats are twenty threeflats. It has twelve hirns and a fiveside for a hirsc. Showing is o5o3x, also o4s3s and s3s3s. [OBSA: ike]

6. Gituf - (YI tuf) great twelflat. Flats are twelve fiveflats. It has twelve hirns and a fivestar for a hirsc, this is in the twen foughthede. Showing is x5o5/2o. [OBSA: gad]

7. Sistuf - (SIS tuf) small starry twelflat. Flats are twelve fivestars. It has twelve hirns and a fiveflat for a hirsc, showing is o5o5/2x. [OBSA: sissid]

8. Gitwen - (YI twen) great twentiflat. Flats are twenty threesides with twelve hirns. It has a fivestar for a hirsc and is in the sistuf foughthede. Showing is o5/2o3x, also o4s3/2s and s3/2s3/2s. [OBSA: gike]

9. Gistuf - (YIS tuf) great starry twelflat. Flats are twelve twentiflats and has twenty hirns. It has a threestar for a hirsc, showing is x5/2o3o. [OBSA: gissid]


Twins and Other-Roots

Below shows how the nine lawfuls fall into twin and other-root twosomes

Twins

Own Twin: fewf

Twins: wyr-aht, twef-twen, gituf-sistuf, gitwen-gistuf

Other-Roots

No Other-Roots: fewf, wyr, aht

Other-Roots: twef-gistuf, twen-gitwen, gituf-sistuf

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