An Icosahedron, Augmented with Twenty Triangular Cupolae, Together with Its Dual

Icosahedron Augmented with Triangular Cupolae

After making the above polyhedron using Stella 4d (a program you can try for free at www.software3d.com/Stella.php), I checked its dual, which is shown below. I was surprised at its appearance, for it resembles a stellated polyhedron, even though it was created by a completely different process.

Icosahedron Augmented with Triangular Cupolae's Dual

5 thoughts on “An Icosahedron, Augmented with Twenty Triangular Cupolae, Together with Its Dual

  1. Wonderful Robert but…. PLEASE make the rotation speed of your models much slower for ease of contemplation and study.

    Like

    • I’ll try. The problem is that these rotating .gifs use a LOT of memory already, and that amount increases if the rotational speed is slowed down. I usually use a rotational period of four seconds, but can certainly attempt increasing that to six. If the file gets too big, though, WordPress won’t let it be uploaded at all.

      Like

    • Please see the response to the comment right above. The upshot: I’m going to try to slow them down, but limitations on the size of uploaded files won’t permit making them much slower than they are now. Slowing them down by a factor of two, for example, doubles the size of the file, and there’s a file-size upload limit on WordPress. It’s a balancing act.

      Like

Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Log Out /  Change )

Twitter picture

You are commenting using your Twitter account. Log Out /  Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. Log Out /  Change )

Connecting to %s