To make the cluster above, I began with the compound of five octahedra, which has 5(8) = 40 faces, all of them equilateral triangles. Next, I augmented each of those triangular faces with a single rhombicosidodecahedron — forty in all.

Next, I started anew with the compound of five dodecahedra, which has 5(12) = 60 pentagonal faces, all of them regular. Each of these sixty pentagons was then augmented by a single rhombicosidodecahedron.

For the next cluster, I started with the most well-known compound of ten tetrahedra. There are actually two such compounds; I used the one which is the compound of the chiral five-tetrahedron compound, combined with its mirror image. Since 10(4) = 40, this cluster, like the first one in this post, contains forty rhombicosidodecahedra. Unlike the other models shown here, this one has “holes,” which you can see as it rotates, but the reason for this is a mystery to me. The same is true for the first cluster shown in this post.

There also exist two compounds of eight tetrahedra each, and I used one of them for this next cluster, using the same procedure, so this cluster is composed of 8(4) = 32 rhombicosidodecahedra.

All four of these clusters were created with Stella 4d, a program you may try for free here.