A Survey of Right Angles in Convex Pentagons

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A Survey of Right Angles in Pentagons

A regular pentagon, of course, has no right angles, but irregular pentagons can have one, two, or three (but not four, nor five). There are two varieties for both two and three right angles in pentagons — the right angles can be consecutive, or non-consecutive.

Compound of the Rhombic Triacontahedron and a Truncated Icosahedron

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Compound of the Rhombic Triacontahedron and a Truncated Icosahedron

I stumbled across this while manipulating polyhedra with Stella 4d, which you can try for free at http://www.software3d.com/stella.php.

The title describes the blue and yellow figure as “a” truncated icosahedron, rather than “the” truncated icosahedron, because of the slight irregularity of the hexagonal faces, a result of the truncation-planes being slightly closer to the center than is the case for the true Archimedean solid. It should be possible to fix this, but that may be beyond my abilities.

Sixty Irregular Pentagons in a Regular Pattern

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Sixty Irregular Pentagon in a Regular Pattern

Another accidental discovery made while manipulating polyhedra with Stella 4d, which you can try for free at http://www.software3d.com/stella.php.

Polyhedron Featuring Nonagons and Rhombi

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Polyhedron Featuring Nonagons and Rhombi

I stumbled across this while manipulating polyhedra with Stella 4d, which you can try for free at http://www.software3d.com/stella.php.

I don’t think the nonagons are quite regular, and the yellow figures may be near-rhomboidal kites, rather than true rhombi. Nevertheless, I find it an interesting figure, and am posting it here so I can find it for further investigations later.