It’s made of rhombicosidodecahedra, and has the overall shape of a rhombicosidodecahedron as well. To make it, I started with the polyhedron in the last post, and then augmented each green pentagonal face with a rhombicosidodecahedron. I used software available here: http://www.software3d.com/stella.php.
To obtain this polyhedron, I took the one from the last post, and then augmented the twenty outermost triangles with icosidodecahedra. The fact that this new cluster has the overall shape of a dodecahedron caught be by surprise.
Software credit: see http://www.software3d.com/Stella.php for free trial download.
The polyhedral software I used to make this image may be purchased, or tried for free, at http://www.software3d.com/Stella.php.
This regular 4-d polytope is made of 600 tetrahedral unit cells. It is rotating in hyperspace, continually changing the three-dimensional “slice” of it which you can see. The software used to make this image may be purchased, or tried for free, at http://www.software3d.com/Stella.php.
The software used to make this is available as a free trial download at http://www.software3d.com/stella.php.
I made this .gif with Stella 4d, software available as a free trial download at http://www.software3d.com/stella.php.
If oriented just right, ten rhombicosidodecahedra can be stuck together to form a regular decagonal ring.
You may try the software I used to make this, as a free trial download, at http://www.software3d.com/stella.php.
Software credit: http://www.software3d.com/stella.php
Seven snub cubes almost make a perfect ring. There’s a small region of overlap between two of them which precludes perfection in this case. If you click on the image, it will rotate, and you’ll be able to spot this overlap-region more easily.
Software credit: see http://www.software3d.com/stella.php
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