A Rhombic Dodecahedron Decorated with Golden Mandalas

To make this, I used Stella 4d: Polyhedron Navigator to take the image I blogged here, and then project it onto the faces of a rhombic dodecahedron. Next, I put that polyhedron into motion for the .gif shown below.

If you’d like to give Stella a free try, the site to visit is http://www.software3d.com/Stella.php.

Golden Mandala

This decagonal mandala is split into fifty golden triangles (shown in yellow), and forty golden gnomons (shown in orange).

Octagonal Spirals

This is a modification of the well-known tessellation of the plane with squares and regular octagons.

A Tessellation of Regular Decagons and Bowtie Hexagons

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