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Daily Archives: 1 April 2015

Two Versions of a 72-Pentagon Polyhedron

Posted on 1 April 2015 by RobertLovesPi
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Here’s the first one:

72 pentagons

To make the next one, I rendered the twelve regular pentagons invisible, and put the remaining sixty faces in “rainbow color mode,” using Stella 4d, software you can try at this website.

72 pentagons rainbow

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