Spinning Wheels

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Flashing Semicircles

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Tetrahedrally-Symmetric Creatures with Polyhedral Legs

Each of these has a tetrahedron hidden from view in the center.

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These were made using Stella 4d, which you may try for yourself here.

Shield Mandala

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Rings of Five

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Five

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A Festive Cluster of Polyhedra

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This is what you get if you start with an icosahedron, augment each of its faces with tetrahedra, and then augment the tetrahedral faces with octahedra. I made it using Stella 4d, a program you may try for free at http://www.software3d.com/Stella.php.

Twelve

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Created using Stella 4d, available here.

A Decorated Pentagonal Hexacontahedron, with Three of Its Stellations

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This is a pentagonal hexacontahedron, the dual of the snub dodecahedron. It’s decorated with mandalas of the the type I blogged here, two posts ago. The mandalas do interesting things when this polyhedron is stellated, as you can see below.

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That was the first stellation, and here is the second:

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The sixth stellation was the last one I found interesting enough to post.

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All four polyhedral images above were created using Stella 4d: Polyhedron Navigator, software you may buy, or try for free, at this website.

Mandala Based on the Number 48

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