[Rockhounds] Crystal systems templates

[Kreigh Tomaszewski]

In 1991 the Rochester Mineralogical Symposium published "A Guide to  
Understanding Crystallography" by Jennie R. Smith, Library of Congress  
Catalog Number 91-092990. The last chapter is a set of templates  
designed to be photocopied, enlarged, cut out, folded, and glued  
together. Perhaps you can find a copy of the excellent 176 page spiral  
bound book.

Edmund Scientific has a plastic set of crystal forms available.

I found a link to  
http://www.mineralogie.uni-wuerzburg.de/links/teach/crysteach.html that  
said there were templates available from the page, but I didn't have  
time to explore the links and find it. It certainly was an interesting  
collection of resources on crystallography.

There is a free PDF download with templates at  
http://www.iucr.org/education/teaching-resources/polyhedral-models/ 
crystal-classes that I found looking for the instructions on how to cut  
wooden models on a table saw from a 4x4 that I know one of the local  
geology professors published a few years ago.

Kreigh



On Sunday, Dec 7, 2008, at 20:31 America/Detroit, Lawrence Rush wrote:

> I am looking for a source of printable templates of the crystal  
> systems which can be cut, folded and glued into geometric forms. These  
> are to be used as teaching examples of the crystal systems for a  
> beginning class in mineralogy.
>
> I made my own once (laborious!), and found some once on the web, but  
> am not having any luck right now.
>
> Larry Rush
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