Expanding the Rhombic Octagonoid, Using Equilateral Triangles

I first named the rhombic octagonoid, a ninety-faced zonohedron, right here. I’ve added a new twist to it now, though, and that is to expand this polyhedron using twenty equilateral triangles. This causes the octagons of the rhombic octagonoid to become decagons. This new solid has 110 faces, and is not a zonohedron, although it is a “zonish” polyhedron. The only faces it has which are not zonogons are the triangles.

I built this new polyhedron with Zome. If you’d like to try out Zome for yourself, the website to visit is at http://www.zometool.com.

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