MatchTheNet - An Educational Game on 3-Dimensional Polytopes (Multimedia Contribution)

Authors Michael Joswig, Georg Loho, Benjamin Lorenz, Rico Raber



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Michael Joswig
Georg Loho
Benjamin Lorenz
Rico Raber

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Michael Joswig, Georg Loho, Benjamin Lorenz, and Rico Raber. MatchTheNet - An Educational Game on 3-Dimensional Polytopes (Multimedia Contribution). In 33rd International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2017). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 77, pp. 66:1-66:5, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2017) https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.SoCG.2017.66

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We present an interactive game which challenges a single player to match 3-dimensional polytopes to their planar nets. It is open source, and it runs in standard web browsers.

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  • three-dimensional convex polytopes
  • unfoldings

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