In addition to the 42 regular decagons, the faces of this polyhedron include twenty equilateral triangles, sixty yellow trapezoids, and sixty blue trapezoids. That’s 182 faces in all.
The next picture shows what happens if all of the decagons have the same color, the triangles have another, and the trapezoids are hidden from view.
Both images were created using Stella 4d, software you can try for yourself at this website.
Images obtained by NASA’s New Horizons space probe. Geometrical rendering done using Stella 4d, available at http://www.software3d.com/Stella.php.
Software used: Stella 4d, available at www.software3d.com/Stella.php.
I made this using Stella 4d, software you can try for free at http://www.software3d.com/Stella.php.
Manipulating known polyhedra in the effort to find new ones, as I did here, is made easy with Stella 4d, a program available at this website.
I made these using Stella 4d, which you may try for free right here.
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