About RobertLovesPi

I go by RobertLovesPi on-line, and am interested in many things, a large portion of which are geometrical. Welcome to my own 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.

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One of Many Faceted Versions of the Great Rhombicosidodecahedron

Posted on 9 March 2019 by RobertLovesPi

The great rhombicosidodecahedron is also known as the truncated icosidodecahedron. I created this faceting of it using Stella 4d: Polyhedron Navigator, which you can try for free at http://www.software3d.com/Stella.php.

A Symmetrohedron Featuring Regular Pentagons and Hexagons, as Well as Isosceles Trapezoids

Posted on 2 March 2019 by RobertLovesPi

Created using *Stella 4d*, which you can try for yourself at http://www.software3d.com/Stella.php.

Four Zonohedra

Posted on 16 February 2019 by RobertLovesPi

To build these zonohedra, I used Stella4d, a program you may try for free at http://www.software3d.com/Stella.php.

An Unusual Non-Convex Polyhedron

Posted on 9 February 2019 by RobertLovesPi

To make this polyhedron using Stella 4d, which you can try for free at http://www.software3d.com/Stella.php, I started with the cuboctahedron. I next dropped the symmetry of the model down from octahedral to tetrahedral, and then I stellated it 54 times.

Normal and Expanded Versions of the Rhombic Enneacontahedron

Posted on 2 February 2019 by RobertLovesPi

The polyhedron above is the rhombic enneacontahedron. Sixty of its faces are wide (yellow) rhombi, while the other thirty are narrow (red) rhombi. The wider rhombi are arranged in twelve panels of five rhombi each. If those panels are moved outward from the center by just the right amount, the narrower rhombi have room to expand, becoming equilateral octagons:

Both of these rotating images were created using Stella 4d, a program you can try, for free, at http://www.software3d.com/Stella.php.

A Polyhedron with 240 Faces, All of Them Quadrilaterals

Posted on 2 February 2019 by RobertLovesPi

This polyhedron’s faces are four different types of quadrilaterals. Each type of face appears sixty times. I made it using Stella 4d: Polyhedron Navigator, a program you can try out for free at http://www.software3d.com/Stella.php.