Selected Stellations of the Truncated Dodecahedron

This is the truncated dodecahedron. It is one of the Archimedean solids.

Trunc Dodeca

This polyhedron has a long stellation-series, from which I selected several on aesthetic grounds. The figure immediately below is the truncated dodecahedron’s 16th stellation.

16th stellation of Trunc Dodeca

Here is the 21st stellation.

21st stellation of Trunc Dodeca

It’s easy to stellate polyhedra rapidly, and make many other changes to them, with Stella 4d: Polyhedron Navigator. You can try it for free at http://www.software3d.com/Stella.php.

25th stellation of Trunc Dodeca.gif

The stellation shown immediately above is the 25th, and the one shown immediately below is the 27th.

27th stellation of Trunc Dodeca

Here is the next stellation: the 28th. Unlike the ones shown above, it is chiral.

28th stellation of Trunc Dodeca.gif

This is the truncated dodecahedron’s 31st stellation.

31st stellation of Trunc Dodeca.gif

This one is the 38th stellation.

38th stellation of Trunc Dodeca.gif

This one is the 44th.

44th stellation of Trunc Dodeca.gif

The last one shown here is called the truncated dodecahedron’s final stellation because, if it is stellated once more, it returns to the original truncated dodecahedron.

Final stellation of Trunc Dodeca

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