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Daily Archives: 8 July 2018

A Pyritohedral, Stellated Polyhedron, and Its Convex Hull

Posted on 8 July 2018 by RobertLovesPi
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To make this polyhedron using Stella 4d (available here), I began with the dodecahedron, dropped the symmetry of the model from icosahedral to tetrahedral, and then stellated it thirteen times. 

Dodeca 13th tetstell.gif

This stellated polyhedron has pyritohedral symmetry, but this is easier to see in its convex hull:

Convex hull of the dodecahedron's 13th tetstell.gif

The eight blue triangles in this convex hull are equilateral, while the twelve yellow ones are golden isosceles triangles.

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