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=== Flexible polyhedra === {{main|Flexible polyhedron}} It is possible for some polyhedra to change their overall shape, while keeping the shapes of their faces the same, by varying the angles of their edges. A polyhedron that can do this is called a flexible polyhedron. By [[Cauchy's theorem (geometry)|Cauchy's rigidity theorem]], flexible polyhedra must be non-convex. The volume of a flexible polyhedron must remain constant as it flexes; this result is known as the bellows theorem.<ref>{{citation | last1 = Demaine | first1 = Erik D. | author1-link = Erik Demaine | last2 = O'Rourke | first2 = Joseph | author2-link = Joseph O'Rourke (professor) | contribution = 23.2 Flexible polyhedra | doi = 10.1017/CBO9780511735172 | isbn = 978-0-521-85757-4 | mr = 2354878 | pages = 345β348 | publisher = Cambridge University Press, Cambridge | title = Geometric Folding Algorithms: Linkages, origami, polyhedra | title-link=Geometric Folding Algorithms | year = 2007}}.</ref>
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