A Compound of a Slightly Stretched Truncated Icosahedron and the Rhombic Triacontahedron
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A Compound of a Slightly-Truncated Icosahedron and the Rhombic Triacontahedron
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The Eleventh Stellation of the Truncated Octahedron Is an Interesting Polyhedral Compound
This compound has three parts: two tetrahedra, plus one smaller cube. I made it using Stella 4d: Polyhedron Navigator, which you can try for free at http://www.software3d.com/Stella.php.
A Compound of the Great Stellated Dodecahedron and the Great Dodecahedron
In the picture above, each component of this compound has its own color. In the one below, each set of parallel faces is given a color of its own.
These images were made using Stella 4d, software you may try for yourself at this website.
A Compound of Three Trapezohedra
I came across this little beauty while exploring stellations of the triakis octahedron, which is the dual of the truncated cube. Its three components are each eight-faced trapezohedra, and it showed up as the sixth in that stellation-series.
Stella 4d: Polyhedron Navigator was used to make this rotating image. You may try it for free right here.
The Eighteenth Stellation of the Rhombicosidodecahedron Is an Interesting Polyhedral Compound
The 18th stellation of the rhombicosidodecahedron, shown above, is also an interesting compound. The yellow component of this compound is the rhombic triacontahedron, and the blue-and-red component is a “stretched” form of the truncated icosahedron.
This was made using Stella 4d, which you can try for free right here.
The Compound of the Truncated Isocahedron and the Pentakis Dodecahedron, with Related Polyhedra
The yellow-and-red polyhedron in the compound below is the truncated icosahedron, one of the Archimedean solids. The blue figure is its dual, the pentakis dodecahedron, which is one of the Catalan solids.
The next image shows the convex hull of this base/dual compound. Its faces are kites and rhombi.
Shown next is the dual of this convex hull, which features regular hexagons, regular pentagons, and isosceles triangles.
Next, here is the compound of the last two polyhedra shown.
Continuing this process, here is the convex hull of the compound shown immediately above.
This latest convex hull has an interesting dual, which is shown below. It blends characteristics of several Archimedean solids, including the rhombicosidodecahedron, the truncated icosahedron, and the great rhombicosidodecahedron.
This process could be continued indefinitely — making a compound of the last two polyhedra shown, then forming its convex hull, then creating that convex hull’s dual, and so on.
All these polyhedra were made using Stella 4d: Polyhedron Navigator, which you can purchase (or try for free) at http://www.software3d.com/Stella.php.
