Fifteen Interesting Convex Hulls

Some Interesting Convex Hulls, and Duals of Convex Hulls

Each of the smaller pictures below may be enlarged by clicking on them.

dual of 182face which herself has 240 faces

All of these images were produced using Stella 4d, which you may try or buy at http://www.software3d.com/Stella.php.

Dual of Convex hull

This one is a variant of the icosidodecahedron.

cool Convex hull

This one is based on the rhombcuboctahedron.

Convex hu3

This one is made of squares, rhombi, and irregular pentagons.

Dual of Convex hull2

This one is composed entirely of pentagons and hexagons, none of which are regular.

Dual of Convex hull X

This one has faces which include squares, rhombi, and isosceles triangles.

Faceted Dual

In this one, the hexagons and squares are regular. Only the isosceles triangles are irregular.

h&o&it

This is the dual of the last one shown here. Its faces are all either kites or rhombi.

h&o&it's dual made of kites and rhombi

I hoped to make this one into a near miss to the Johnson solids, but the octagons of both types, especially, are too far from regularity to get that to work. The only faces which are regular are the green triangles.

hmmm

This one is a variant of the icosahedron.

icosahedron with pasties

I found this one interesting.

interesting

And this one is its dual:

interesting dual

Finally, here’s one made of kites and regular hexagons.

kites and hexagons

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