Here is a list of the copyright holders for images used on this site. We have licensed some of these images, and have written permission for others that aren't in the public domain. We have provided credit as best we can:
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Aspen Historical Society, Shaw Collection
Square set timbering was invented in 1860 by Phillip Deidesheimer in Nevada for extracting silver from the Comstock Lode in Virginia City. This image shows the scale of an implementation in the Smuggler Mine, Aspen, Colorado. Image from Aspen Historical Society, Shaw Collection with permission. -
Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center / Estate of Hazel Larsen Archer
Buckminster Fuller at Black Mountain College, Summer 1948. Photo by Hazel Larsen Archer. Courtesy of the Estate of Hazel Larsen Archer and Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center. -
Bonnie Stewart / University of Michigan
From the cover of the book "Adventures Among the Toroids: A Study of Quasiconvex, Aplanar, Tunneled Orientable Polyhedra of Positive Genus Having Regular Faces with Disjoint Interiors" by Bonnie Stewart first published in 1970. Self published by Bonnie Stewart and University of Michigan -
Brooklyn Museum
Geometric glassware bowl in the shape of an octahedral cupola designed by George Sakier for the Fostoria Glass Company cica 1930. From the Brooklyn Museum collection -
Chris Griffith and Eric A. Meyer / The Atomic Archive
A collapsed radio tower subjected to nuclear blast testing in Nevada circa 1955. From the 3rd edition of the book "The Effects of Nuclear Weapons" published by the U.S. Dept. of Defense and the U.S. Atomic Energy Comission in 1977. Digitized and published by Chris Griffith and Eric A. Meyer at The Atomic Archive -
Dolmen Moon
Geometric totems and vertical artistic structures. Image from Dolmen Moon's Tumblr -
Dominik Dvořák / Unsplash
One World trade Center showing its elongated anti-prismic shape. Photo by Dominik Dvořák at Unsplash -
Eames Office
From the cover of "Eames: Beautiful Details" a book about the designers Charles and Ray Eames. Available at the Eames Office -
Eden Robbins
From the cover of the book "King of Infinite Space - Donald Coxeter, The Man Who Saved Geometry", a biography of Donald Coxeter by Siobhan Roberts. Photo by Eden Robbins -
Ershov Sergey
Personality and variation with a limited palette. Micro-grid pixel art by Ershov Sergey. Ershov Sergey on Behance -
Estate of J.S. Lewinski / National Portrait Gallery, London
Dorothy Hodgkin working with a complex molecular model. © estate of J.S. Lewinski / National Portrait Gallery, London (with permission) -
Fundación Gego / Juan Santana
Artist Gego concentrating on a sculptural installation. Photo by Juan Santana via Fundación Gego archive -
Germanisches Nationalmuseum
Johann Neudörfer working with a student possibly his son Johann the Younger circa 1561. © Germanisches Nationalmuseum -
Gwen Fisher
Bat country, a 22ft tall Sierpinski tetrahedron composed of 384 softball bats and 130 balls. Gwen Fisher and Paul Brown's pyramid at the Burning Man Festival, Nevada. Photo by Gwen Fisher (used with permission) -
Herzog August Bibliothek / The Public Domain Review
16th century watercolor illustration of a small bird next to a large tetrahedron taken from a collection of geometric drawings whose author is unknown. Image from the Herzog August Bibliothek via The Public Domain Review -
Imogen Cunningham Trust / Ruth Asawa Lanier, Inc. / David Zwirner
Ruth Asawa working on one of her wire sculptures, 1956. Photo © 2022 Imogen Cunningham Trust. Artwork © 2025 Ruth Asawa Lanier, Inc. Courtesy David Zwirner -
Internet Archive / Joseph Asscher
Joseph Asscher carefully cleaving the Cullinan Diamond in to smaller stones for later finishing. From Joseph Asscher's self-published book "The Cullinan" hosted at the Internet Archive -
Laurian Ghinitoiu
Sou Fujimoto's Pavilion in Naoshima, Japan. Photo by Laurian Ghinitoiu (with permission) -
Library of Congress / Historic American Engineering Record
Wills Creek Bollman Bridge, a Warren truss spanning railway tracks at Meyersdale, Somerset County, Pennsylvania, USA. From the Historic American Engineering Record at the Library of Congress -
Lin Dai / Unsplash
Honeycomb structure made by bees for storing honey. Photo by Lin Dai at Unsplash -
Metropolitan Museum of Art (Open Access)
Archimedean solids and their nets from Augustin Hirschvogel's booklet "A True and Thorough Instruction in Geometry" dated 1543. Via The Met Open Access Initiative -
@motodisimonskornotmakgeru9172
Playing Morabaraba a traditional African boardgame. Video by @motodisimonskornotmakgeru9172 -
Narukawa Lab / Goldwin Public Relations
A 4-person tent domed tent with pentagonal and triangular faces following face adjacency rules. Via Narukawa Lab & Goldwin Public Relations -
NASA / Dominic Hart
SOLL-E a robot for building structures carries a polyhedral building block at NASA's Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley, California. Image from NASA/Dominic Hart -
Science History Institute
Richard Smalley working with fullerene models. Courtesy of Science History Institute -
Simmetria Institute Library Museum
Ugo Adriano Graziotti with his geometric models and holding an elevated polyhedron. From the Simmetria Institute Library Museum collection with permission. -
Smithsonian Institution
Models of Johnson Solids by Martin Berman from the Smithsonian Museum collection. From the Smithsonian collection -
U.S. Patent Office
Two methods of manufacturing Tetrapak packaging containers invented by Erik Berglund from the patent dated 1963. Image from patent US3090175A -
Wilson44691 / Wikimedia Commons
Dendritic manganese oxide on a limestone plate. Scale units are 1 mm. Photo by Wilson44691 -
Zou et al. (doi.org/10.1155/2015/362103)
Octahedral Iron Nitride crystals from the paper "Synthesis and Characterization of an Iron Nitride Constructed by a Novel Template of Metal Organic Framework" by Suyan Liu, Quan Huo, Rongna Chen, Peipei Chen, Yuan Li, Yang Han. https://doi.org/10.1155/2015/362103
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