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Animating a Polyhedron

pchin 1456 Maple
June 09 2026
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A little while ago, I created a video, Engaging and Enlightening Students with Maple Visualizations, that showed a sample of Maple visualizations that would be helpful in teaching math. Doing that allowed me to get reacquainted with some of Maple's plotting features that I hadn't used for a while. As a result, I made a second instructional video for my Maple tips series, Animating a Polyhedron in Maple. 

I chose this topic because I thought it would show several features in Maple that might not be known to all users. I list them below and encourage you to try them out.

  • The plots:-polyhedraplot command allows you to create a 3-D plot of a polyhedron, including one of 138 polyhedra that Maple knows about.

  • The list of named polyhedra available can be obtained by calling the plots:-polyhedra_supported command.

  • The viewpoint option, which allows you to create an animation by varying the viewpoint through a 3D plot, can be used to rotate the polyhedron.

  • Finally, the Export feature allows you to save the plot animation as an animated GIF.

 

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