How to slice a tetrahedron
Each of the small red tetrahedra is removed as a plane is passed through the big tetrahedron. The "glass plane", parallel to one of the faces, is passed through the big tetrahedron, and the resulting small tetrahedron is removed, as shown in the left picture.

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Revised by John C. Pierce February 10, 2002