Spinning Spectral Spiralweb

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spinning_spectral_spiralweb

Three Polyhedra with Only Pentagonal Faces

72 pentagons

The polyhedron above has 72 pentagonal faces of two types. The next one below has three different types of pentagon for its 132 faces. After that is a polyhedron with sixty faces, all of which are non-convex pentagons.

132 pentagons

60 concave pentagons

All three of these all-pentagon polyhedra were created using Stella 4d: Polyhedron Navigator. This program is available here.

Some Stellations of the Truncated Dodecahedron

The stellation-series of the truncated dodecahedron contains some interesting polyhedra. Selections from this series appear below.

24th Stellated Trunc Dodeca chiral

The polyhedron above is the 24th stellation of the truncated dodecahedron, while the one below is the 25th stellation.

25th stellation of Trunc Dodeca

27th Stellated Trunc Dodeca chiral

The polyhedron immediately above is the truncated dodecahedron’s 27th stellation. The one shown below is the 29th stellation.

29th Stellated Trunc Dodeca chiral

36th Stellated Trunc Dodeca chiral

The last two polyhedra in this post are the truncated dodecahedron’s 36th stellation (above), and its 70th stellation (below).

70th Stellated Trunc Dodeca

These images were created using Stella 4d, software available here.

 

A Tiling of a Plane, Using Diconcave Octagons, Rhombi, and Two Types of Kites

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kites of two types and rhombi and diconcave octagons

The 11th, 13th, and 15th Stellations of the Icosahedron

First, this is the 11th stellation.

Stellated Icosa the 11th

Next, the 13th:

13th Stellated Icosa

And, finally, the 15th stellation of the icosahedron:

15th Stellated Icosa

I used Stella 4d, which you can find here, to make these.

Two Different Cluster-Polyhedra

Augmented Icosa with RIDs

An icosahedron is hidden from view in the center of this cluster-polyhedron. To create the cluster, each of the icosahedron’s triangles was augmented with a rhombicosidodecahedron. The resulting cluster has the overall shape of a dodecahedron.

To create the next cluster-polyhedron, I started with the one above, and then augmented each of its triangular faces with icosidodecahedra. 

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I used a program named Stella 4d: Polyhedron Navigator to create these cluster-polyhedra. This software may be bought (or tried for free) at this website

An Expansion of the Rhombic Enneacontahedron with 422 Faces, Together with Its 360-Faced Dual

422 faces expansion of the REC

The polyhedron above had 422 faces and 360 vertices. In dual polyhedra, these numbers are reversed, so the next polyhedra (the dual of the first one) has 360 faces and 422 vertices. Both were created using Stella 4d, available here.

422 faces expansion of the REC the dual with 360 faces

HexaStar II (two different versions)

hexastar ii

hexastar iib

HexaStar

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hexastar

A Polyhedral Journey, Beginning With an Expansion of the Rhombic Triacontahedron

The blue figure below is the rhombic triacontahedron. It has thirty identical faces, and is one of the Catalan solids, also known as Archimedean duals. This particular Catalan solid’s dual is the icosidodecahedron.

Rhombic Triaconta

I use a program called Stella 4d (available here) to transform polyhedra, and the next step here was to augment each face of this polyhedron with a prism, keeping all edge lengths the same.

Rhombic Triaconta augmented

After that, I created the convex hull of this prism-augmented rhombic triacontahedron, which is the smallest convex figure which can enclose a given polyhedron.

Convex hull

Another ability of Stella is the “try to make faces regular” function. Throwing this function at this four-color polyhedron above produced the altered version below, in which edge lengths are brought as close together as possible. It isn’t possible to do this perfectly, though, and that is most easily seen in the yellow faces. While close to being squares, they are actually trapedoids.

ch after ttmfr

For the next transformation, I looked at the dual of this polyhedron. If I had to name it, I would call it the trikaipentakis icosidodecahedron. It has two face types: sixty of the larger kites, and sixty of the smaller ones, also.

ch after ttmfr dual

Next, I used prisms, again, to augment each face. The height used for these prisms is the length of the edges where orange kites meet purple kites.

aug ch after ttmfr dual

Lastly, I made the convex hull of the polyhedron above. This convex hull appears below.

Convex hull again