Another application for polyhedrons...

[kirby urner]

So the race is on, to see which schools are the least "left behind" on Google Earth.

Here's another one recently completed in Portland:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/17157315@N00/5384976345/sizes/l/

You'll probably want to use Sketch Up, a free resource (scriptable in Ruby).  

That's what Lew used:

http://sketchup.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=57057

Is your school being left behind?  This could be a class geometry project.

Or geography.  You'll need to borrow a digital camera perhaps.

Ask your teacher, today.

Kirby

More of Lew's work:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/17157315@N00/5382897441/in/photostream/