I made this using Stella 4d, which you can try for free right here. In the image above, the two components of this compound are given separate colors. In the second picture, below, the coloring is per face, except for parallel faces, which have the same color.
I made this using Stella 4d, which you can try for free at this website.
The second stellation of the dysdyakis triacontahedron, seen above, is an interesting two-part polyhedral compound. The dysdyakis triacontahedron is one of the Catalan solids, and is the dual of the great rhombicosidodecahedron.
There’s also a “little brother” to this first compound — it’s the second stellation of the dysdyakis dodecahedron, which is the dual of the great rhombicuboctahedron. Like its “big brother,” it’s a two-part compound. It is shown below.
Interestingly, the components of these two compounds are “stretched” versions of two other Catalan solids: the pentagonal hexecontahedron (dual of the snub dodecahedron), and the pentagonal icositetrahedron (dual of the snub cube).
I made these virtual models using Stella 4d, which you can download and try for free at http://www.software3d.com/Stella.php.
These compounds differ in the relative sizes of their components. I made all three using Stella 4d, which you can try for free right here.
I made these using Stella 4d: Polyhedron Navigator. You can give this software a try, right here, for free.
I stumbled across this compound the other day, while playing around with Stella 4d: Polyhedron Navigator (available here).
At first, I thought this was a compound of six tetrahedra, but careful examination reveals that the tetrahedra are missing parts along the middle of some of their edges. I looked up the canonical compound of six tetrahedra in Stella‘s library, and here it is. As you can see, it’s quite similar — but it does have those “missing” pieces added.
I stumbled across this while playing around with my favorite polyhedron-manipulation tool, Stella 4d. You can try this program for free at http://www.software3d.com/Stella.php.
I made this using Stella 4d, which you can try for free here.
I made this using Stella 4d, a program you can try for free at this website.
The red component of this compound is one of an infinite number of possible pyritohedral dodecahedra. It’s shown by itself in the image below.
I made this compound using Stella 4d, a program you can try for free at http://www.software3d.com/Stella.php.
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