Monthly Archives: March 2017

A Dozen Snub Dodecahedra, Surrounding a Dodecahedral Core

Posted on 30 March 2017 by

Software used — Stella 4d: Polyhedral Navigator, available as a free trial download at http://www.software3d.com/Stella.php.

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The Snub Dodecahedron’s Big Brother

Posted on 28 March 2017 by

The polyhedron above reminded me of the snub dodecahedron, which is shown below. Both rotating images were made using Stella 4d, which you can try for yourself — with a free trial download available — right here.

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A Polyhedron Made of Lightning Bolts and Triskelions

Posted on 21 March 2017 by

This was made using Stella 4d: Polyhedron Navigator, a program available here.

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A Political Cartoon

Posted on 10 March 2017 by
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Donald Trump, the Expert

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Six Zonohedra

Posted on 8 March 2017 by

Zonohedra are a subset of polyhedra. In a zonohedron, all the faces are zonogons. A zonogon is a polygon with an even number of sides, as well as having opposite sides both congruent and parallel. This small collection of rotating … Continue reading →

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A Polyhedron Featuring 42 Regular Decagons

Posted on 4 March 2017 by

In addition to the 42 regular decagons, the faces of this polyhedron include twenty equilateral triangles, sixty yellow trapezoids, and sixty blue trapezoids. That’s 182 faces in all. The next picture shows what happens if all of the decagons have the … Continue reading →

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