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Daily Archives: 25 August 2017

An Expanded Snub Dodecahedron

Posted on 25 August 2017 by RobertLovesPi
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To make this polyhedron, I started with a snub dodecahedron. Next, I augmented all triangular faces of it with prisms, then took the convex hull of the result. Finally, I used Stella 4d‘s “try to make faces regular” function on the convex hull.

An expanded snub dodecahedron

If you’d like to try the trial version of Stella for yourself, the website to visit is http://www.software3d.com/Stella.php.

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