The Small Ditrigonal Icosidodecahedron, Together with Its Fifth Stellation

Faceted Dodeca

I made the polyhedron above by performing a faceting of the dodecahedron, and only realized, after the fact, that I had stumbled upon one of the uniform polyhedra, a set of polyhedra I have not yet studied extensively. It is called the small ditrigonal icosidodecahedron, and its faces are twelve star pentagons and twenty equilateral triangles, with the triangles intersecting each other. Below is its fifth stellation, which appears to be a compound of a yellow dodecahedron and a red polyhedron which I do not (yet) recognize, although it does look quite familiar.

5th stellation of the Small Ditrigonal Icosidodeca

Both images were created using Stella 4d, software you can try right here.

Partially Truncated Platonic and Rhombic Dodecahedra

chiral polyhedron featuring a dozen hexagons and four triangles

Each of these dodecahedra were modified by truncations  at exactly four of their three-valent vertices. As a result, each has four equilateral triangles as faces. In the one above, the Platonic dodecahedron’s pentagonal faces are modified into a dozen irregular hexagons by these truncations, while, in the one below, the rhombic dodecahedron’s faces are modified into twelve irregular pentagons.

dozen pents 4 triangles

Both of these polyhedra were created using Stella 4d, software you can try for yourself at this website.

A Mandala Made of Hexagons, Enneagons, and Dodecagons

recreational math from 2011

I recently re-discovered this “lost work,” which I made using Geometer’s Sketchpad, in 2011 — before I started this blog, which is why it has not appeared here before.