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Rainbow Pentagonal Hexacontahedron

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The Pentagonal Hexacontahedron

This is a Catalan solid. Its dual among the Archimedean solid is the snub dodecahedron, which is chiral, causing this polyhedron to be chiral as well. This simply means that these polyhedra each exist in two forms, which are mirror-images of each other.

This virtual model was made using Stella 4d, which you can find at www.software3d.com/stella.php.

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6 February 2014 by RobertLovesPi
Posted in Mathematics Tagged Catalan solid, geometry, hexacontahedron, Mathematics, pentagonal, polyhedra, polyhedron Leave a reply

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