Tessellation of Regular Hexagons and Chevrons

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A 200-Faced Polyhedron Featuring Twenty Regular Enneagons

In addition to the regular enneagons, this polyhedron’s faces include sixty irregular hexagons, as well as sixty each of two different types of irregular pentagon. I made it using Stella 4d, which you can try for free at this website.

Three Compounds From the Stellation-Series of the Tetrakis Hexahedron

If you stellate the tetrakis hexahedron once, you get a compound of two pyritohedral dodecahedra.

The 16th stellation is a compound of three elongated octahedra.

Later, when you get to the 65th stellation, the result is a compound of four triangular dipyramids.

I found these compounds, and created these rotating images, using Stella 4d: Polyhedron Navigator. If you wish, you can try this program for free at http://www.software3d.com/Stella.php.

Tessellation Featuring Regular Enneagons, Convex Pentagons, Rhombi, and Darts

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Having Fun With Zome

This isn’t exactly a polyhedron, or even a polyhedral compound, although it does contain several polyhedra in it. There’s a red rhombic triacontahedron in the center, a blue icosidodecahedron just outside that, and a blue dodecahedron closer to the outside. There are also twelve blue-and-yellow pentagonal pyramids, as well as twenty smaller blue-and-red triangular pyramids. That may not be a complete list, although I did try to include them all. I didn’t build it with the goal of making anything in particular — I was just having fun with Zome. In other words, I was playing.

Zome is available at http://www.zometool.com, if you’d like to try playing with it, or giving it as a gift to someone who would appreciate it. The small parts could cause a choking hazard for babies or toddlers, but they will delight and amaze school-age kids, as well as older people (like me) who still enjoy play for the sake of playing, and doing math for the sake of doing math.

Two Polyhedra Which Both Feature Twenty Regular Enneagons

The first polyhedron shown here has 212 faces.

The next one has 120 faces, and all the non-enneagonal faces in it are convex pentagons — sixty each, of two types.

I made these polyhedra using Stella 4d, which you can try for free right here.

Tessellation Featuring Regular Enneagons, Equiangular Dodecagons, and Isosceles Triangles

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A Tessellation Featuring Regular Hendecagons, Convex Decagons, and Isosceles Triangles

Hendecagons are also known by many people as “11-gons.” It took quite a while to figure out how to make a tessellation using them.

A Symmetrohedron Derived From the Rhombic Triacontahedron

I made this from a rhombic triacontahedron, using zonohedrification and faceting, with a program called Stella 4d. If you’d like to try this program for yourself, for free, you can do that at this website. This symmetrohedron’s faces include twenty equilateral triangles, thirty regular hexagons, and sixty kites.

Polyhedron X

This is the second stellation of the truncated octahedron. I made it using Stella 4d, which you can try for yourself right here.