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The Bowers style acronyms or ''pet names'' are a system of brief Nomenclature for Polytope s, devised by Jonathan Bowers . His names for the Uniform Polyhedra are given here. Bowers has also assigned similar names to the much more numerous Uniform Polychora (polytopes in 4 dimensions). The names are not technically Acronym s but their creation follows similar logic. Take the initials of the long form name and add extra vowels to make a pronounceable name. So ''Great Icosi-Dodecahedron'' becomes ''gid'' and ''Great Stellated Dodecahedron'' becomes ''Gissid'' (a couple of extra i's and an extra s). Convex regular The Platonic solids. Convex uniform Non-convex regular The Kepler–Poinsot solids. Non-regular Non convex snub polyhedra |
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