Mandala Based on the Number 48

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The Triangles of a Snub Dodecahedron

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The snub dodecahedron, one of the Archimedean solids, has eighty faces which are triangles, and twelve pentagonal faces as well. In the view above, the pentagons are rendered invisible, allowing the interior to be viewed as the solid rotates.

The eighty triangles are of two types: the sixty yellow ones share an edge with a pentagon, and the twenty blue ones do not. If the blue triangles are also hidden, the “transparency” of this solid becomes even greater, as seen below.

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Both of these images were created using Stella 4d, software you may try for free at this website.