A Two-part Polyhedral Compound, Together With Its Dual

I stumbled across this while playing around with Stella 4d, a program you can try for free right here. The red component is the rhombic triacontahedron, while the yellow component is a slightly-stretched version of the strombic hexecontahedron. The dual of this compound is shown below.

Captain Kirk, Mr. Spock, and Dr. McCoy on a Great Rhombicuboctahedron, Revisited

Image credit for Star Trek characters: Paramount.

This is a re-creation of a 2013 blog post featuring the same three characters from the original series of Star Trek, on the same polyhedron. Back then, as a less experienced blogger, I didn’t make these polyhedral images as large, and I used a much faster rotational speed, making it more difficult to see the images clearly. For both the 2013 post and this new one, I used Stella 4d: Polyhedron Navigator to create the rotating images of this solid, the great rhombicuboctahedron. If you’d like to try Stella for yourself, this is the site to visit for a free trial download.

A Truncation of the Rhombic Enneacontahedron

I made this truncated version of the rhombic enneacontahedron, using faceting, with Stella 4d: Polyhedron Navigator. You can try this program for free at this website.