The lab

platonic-reality

A mixed-reality tool for learning the Platonic solids, built in Unity in 2018. Five shapes, five colours. The colours are the ones this site still uses to encode its five disciplines — I picked them for a student project eight years ago and never found a reason to change them.

Discipline
Data & Visualisation
Year
2018 · Public repo
Stack
Unity · C# · Android · Mixed reality

A Unity project from 2018 that put the five Platonic solids into mixed reality on Android so you could walk around them, which is a better way to understand why a dodecahedron has twenty vertices than a diagram is.

It is here for one reason: the palette. The five colours this site uses to encode its disciplines are the ones I assigned to the five solids in this project, and the solid-per-discipline idea is the same idea. Eight years of work later, the filing system I use to describe what I do came out of a student project about geometry.

Open to interesting problems

Got something
that needs building?

hello@louisreed.co.uk