A Cluster of Seventeen Truncated Cubes with Tetrahedral Symmetry

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A Cluster of Seventeen Truncated Cubes with Tetrahedral Symmetry

Software credit: see Stella 4d, available (including a free trial download) at http://www.software3d.com/Stella.php.

Polyhedral Porcupine

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Polyhedral Porcupine

I made this using Stella 4d, which you can try at http://www.software3d.com/Stella.php.

An Octahedron, Augmented with Eight Great Icosahedra, and the Dual of this Augmented Polyhedral Cluster

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An Octahedron, Augmented with Eight Great Icosahedra, and the Dual of this Augmented Polyhedral Cluster

I made these using Stella 4d, which you can try at http://www.software3d.com/Stella.php. Here is its dual, also:

GrIcosadual-Augmented Octa

 

 

An Icosahedron, Augmented with Twenty Great Icosahedra

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An Icosahedron, Augmented with Twenty Great Icosahedra

The picture above uses symmetry to divide the faces of this polyhedral cluster into color groups. This next one puts faces in the same color-group if and only if they are parallel.

icosa  Augmented with Great Icosa with parallel faces a color-set

Stellating this once yielded this result, again colored by face-type, like the first image here:

1st stellation of great icosa - augmented icosahedron

I made these using Stella 4d, which you can try at www.software3d.com/Stella.php.

A +2 Ion of Helium-4

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A +2 Ion of Helium-4

Helium-4 Nucleus

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Helium-4 Nucleus

Alpha Particle

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Alpha Particle

Hexacontagon Molecule

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Hexacontagon Molecule