I made these using Stella 4d, a program you can try as a free trial download at http://www.software3d.com/Stella.php.
Two Images of a Toroidal Rhombic Triacontahedron Made of 212 Dodecahedra
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A Twice-Zonohedrified Dodecahedron
If one starts with a dodecahedron, and then creates a zonohedron based on that solid’s vertices, the result is a rhombic enneacontahedron.
If, in turn, one then creates a new zonohedron based on the vertices of this rhombic enneacontahedron, the result is this 1230-faced polyhedron — a twice-zonohedrified dodecahedron. Included in its faces are thirty dodecagons, sixty hexagons, and sixty octagons, all of them equilateral.
Stella 4d: Polyhedron Navigator was used to perform these transformations, and to create the rotating images above. You can try this program for yourself, free, at http://www.software3d.com/Stella.php.
The Truncated Great Dodecahedron
To get from the last image posted to this one, I used Stella 4d‘s “try to make faces regular” function. (You can get a free trial download of this program right here.)
The Great Stellated Dodecahedron, Inscribed Inside a Partially-Invisible Dodecahedron
I made this using Stella 4d, which you can try right here.
Two Rhombic Polyhedra with Tessellated Faces
These polyhedra are the rhombic dodecahedron (above), and the rhombic triacontahedron (below).
I made both of these using Stella 4d, which you can try for free at http://www.software3d.com/Stella.php. The tessellation on the faces of these polyhedra first appeared right here on this blog, in the post just before this one.
A Three-Level Dodecahedron, Together with Its Dual
After I’d posted this, a helpful friend on Facebook told me the official name of the first polyhedron shown here — a pentalofted chamfered dodecahedron.
The Third Stellation of the Pentagonal Icositetrahedron Is a Compound of Two Irregular Dodecahedra
Here’s the pentagonal icositetrahedron. It is the dual of the snub cube.
And here is its third stellation. As you can see, it’s a compound of two irregular dodecahedra.
I made these images using Stella 4d: Polyhedron Navigator. You can try this program for free at http://www.software3d.com/Stella.php.
A Non-convex, Pyritohedral Dodecahedron with Non-convex Pentagonal Faces
I created this using Stella 4d, which you can try for free at http://www.software3d.com/Stella.php. Starting with the Platonic dodecahedron, I dropped the symmetry of the model down from icosahedral to tetrahedral, then stellated it six times. I also put the resulting polyhedron into “rainbow color mode” before making this .gif image.
41 Dodecahedra
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Stellar Array
A great dodecahedron (red) sits in the middle of this polyhedral cluster. The polyhedra touching the one in the center are blue small stellated dodecahedra. Finally, there are yellow great stellated dodecahedra on the outside.
I assembled this polyhedral cluster using Stella 4d, which you can try for yourself at http://www.software3d.com/Stella.php.
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