This is the compound of five rhombic dodecahedra, with each component shown in a different color. This is one of the few well-known polyhedral compounds which is actually more attractive with the faces hidden, and that’s what’s shown in the next image.
I made these images using Stella 4d: Polyehdron Navigator, which you can try for free at http://www.software3d.com/Stella.php.
Symmetrohedra are symmetrical polyhedra which have many (but not necessarily all) faces regular. The only irregular faces in this polyhedron are the blue isosceles trapezoids.
I made this using Stella 4d: Polyhedron Navigator. You can try this program yourself, for free, at http://www.software3d.com/Stella.php.
The tessellations of the faces of this rhombic triacontahedron first appeared in my last post here. For putting the whole thing together and creating this rotating .gif, I used a program called Stella 4d. If you want to, you can try Stella for free at this website.
The first of these used the center of a square as the center of rotation. This one, by contrast, uses an intersection as the center of rotation. In each case, 45 degrees is the angle used.
Stella 4d: Polyhedron Navigator is selling at 25% off to help cure the boredom of people in isolation because of COVID-19. This software is used to make almost all of the polyhedral images on this blog. Trying the program to see if you like it is free. The website to visit to try Stella is http://www.software3d.com/Stella.php.
Two of the heptagrams are centered in the middle, while the other fourteen are smaller, and form a ring around the two in the center.
