About RobertLovesPi

I go by RobertLovesPi on-line, and am interested in many things, a large portion of which are geometrical. Welcome to my little slice of the Internet. The viewpoints and opinions expressed on this website are my own. They should not be confused with those of my employer, nor any other organization, nor institution, of any kind.

An All-Kite Modification of the Rhombicosidodecahedron

To make this polyhedron, I used Stella 4d‘s “morph duals by augmentation” function on a rhombicosidodecahedron. The result has sixty each of two types of kites, for a total of 120 faces.

If you’d like to try Stella yourself, you can get a free trial download at http://www.software3d.com/Stella.php.

Two Chiral Polyhedra Which Feature Many Trapezoidal Faces

The polyhedron above is a faceted pentagonal icositetrahedron. The unfaceted, normal pentagonal icositetrahedron is the dual of the snub cube.

The solid below is a faceted pentagonal hexecontahedron, which, in unfaceted form, is the dual of the snub dodecahedron.

I made both of these models with Stella 4d, a program you may try for free at http://www.software3d.com/Stella.php.

A Symmetrohedron Derived From the Truncated Octahedron

I made this solid from the truncated octahedron using Stella 4d‘s “morph duals by truncation” function. It has, as faces, six squares, eight regular hexagons, and 24 isosceles triangles. If you’d like to give Stella a try yourself, for free, the site to visit is http://www.software3d.com/Stella.php.

Two Modified Great Icosahedra

To make the polyhedron shown above, I started with the great icosahedron, then applied the “morph duals by truncation” function in Stella 4d (a computer program available, with a free trial download, here). The faces of this polyhedron are twenty equilateral triangles, in red, and twelve regular star pentagons, colored yellow. [Later edit: the solid above is called the great icosidodecahedron, and is one of the uniform solids, although I did not realize this immediately.]

Next, I started with the polyhedron above, and applied the same dual-morph operation to it. The resulting polyhedron (shown below) has twenty equilateral triangles and twelve star pentagons (like its “parent”), plus thirty rectangles, which are shown in blue. Here’s the result, with 62 faces, total.

A Modified Small Stellated Dodecahedron

This was made using the “morph duals by expansion” function on a small stellated dodecahedron. I did this using Stella 4d: Polyhedron Navigator, which you can try for free at http://www.software3d.com/Stella.php.