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Steffen's Flexible Polyhedron

Steffen's polyhedron is able to flex without self-intersection and without distorting any of its faces. It has 14 triangular faces, 21 edges, and 9 vertices. Euler had conjectured no polyhedron could flex. Cauchy proved that convex polyhedra cannot flex.

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