Two Compounds Derived From the Snub Archimedeans

The dual of the snub cube is the pentagonal icositetrahedron. Both solids are chiral, so it is possible to make compounds out of each solid and its mirror-image. The polyhedron shown below is a compound of an enantiomorphic pair of pentagonal icositetrahedra.

The next solid shown was formed in the same way, except I started with the snub dodecahedron. This is the compound of an enantiomorphic pair of pentagonal hexecontahedra.

I did these polyhedron-transformations, as well as making these rotating .gifs, using Stella 4d: Polyhedron Navigator. You can try this program for free at http://www.software3d.com/Stella.php.

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