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Planes are non-curved spatial surfaces. Surfaces which are composed entirely of planar polygons are called polyhedra. Polyhedra have been (and still remain) key to many geometric insights.
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Glaeser, G. (2020). Polyhedra: multi-faced and multi-sided. In: Geometry and its Applications in Arts, Nature and Technology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-61398-3_3
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