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A Symmetrohedron Featuring Regular Heptagons, Regular Hexagons, Irregular Hexagons, and Irregular Pentagon-Pairs

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Symmetrohedra are symmetric polyhedra which have regular polygons for most (but not necessarily all) of their faces. I made this particular one using Stella 4d, which you can try for yourself at this website. Here’s the net for this polyhedron, also.

symmetrohedron featuring heptagons hexagons and pentagons net

This particular symmetrohedron features twelve faces which are regular heptagons, and eight faces which are regular hexagons (shown in yellow). The irregular faces are 24 pentagons, arranged in a dozen pairs, as well as the six green hexagons. That’s 50 faces in all. This solid has pyritohedral symmetry. The most unusual thing about this polyhedron are its 12 heptagonal faces.

A Symmetrohedron Featuring Regular Heptagons and Hexagons, Along with Irregular Quadrilaterals and Triangles

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Symmetrohedra are symmetric polyhedra which have regular polygons for most (but not necessarily all) of their faces. I made this particular one using Stella 4d, which you can try for yourself at this website. Here’s the net for this polyhedron, also.

symmetrohedron net

This particular symmetrohedron features 12 faces which are regular heptagons, and 8 faces which are regular hexagons. The irregular faces are 12 isosceles triangles, 24 isosceles trapezoids, and 6 rectangles, for a total of 62 faces. It has pyritohedral symmetry. The most unusual thing about this polyhedron are its 12 heptagonal faces.

A Polyhedron Featuring Sixty Heptagons, a Dozen Decagons, Thirty Octagons, and 120 Rectangles, Split Between Two Types at Sixty Each

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I made this using Stella 4d: Polyhedron Navigator. This program is available as a free trial download at http://www.software3d.com/Stella.php.

The Dual of a Geodesic Rhombicosidodecahedron

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This polyhedron has, as faces, a dozen regular pentagons, thirty rhombi, and sixty irregular heptagons. I made this using Stella 4d, which is available as a free trial download at http://www.software3d.com/Stella.php.

Four Polyhedra Featuring Heptagons

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Heptagons only appear infrequently in interesting polyhedra. I recently found a few that I like.

Icosidodeca 2nd tetstell with heptagons and triangles is pyritohedral.gif

To form the first of these solids, shown above, I started with the icosidodecahedron, dropped the symmetry of the model from icosahedral to tetrahedral, and then stellated it twice using Stella 4d (available here). To obtain the model shown below, which also features heptagons and triangles, I stellated it once more. Both of these polyhedra have pyritohedral symmetry.

Icosidodeca 3rd tetstell with heptagons and triangles is pyritohedral.gif

To form the next model shown, I began with an rhombicosidodecahedron, set it to tetrahedral symmetry, and stellated it eight times. This produces a chiral solid with tetrahedral symmetry.

Stellated Rhombicosidodeca 8th tetstell features 8 heptagons tet symmetry.gif

For the last of these four polyhedra featuring heptagons, I began with the snub dodecahedron, dropped the symmetry of the model down from icosahedral to tetrahedral, and then stellated it sixty-one times. The resulting solid is chiral, with tetrahedral symmetry.

Snub Dodeca 61st tetstell.gif

Three Polyhedra Featuring Heptagons

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For some reason I do not fully understand, polyhedra featuring heptagons, even if irregular, do not appear often, at least not in my geometrical investigations — so I was pleased to find these three, using Stella 4d: Polyhedron Navigator, available at http://www.software3d.com/Stella.php.

A Box of Heptagons

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It is hard to find polyhedra which contain regular heptagons, but that simply makes the search more challenging, and therefore more fun. This polyhedron features six regular heptagons, and was created with Stella 4d, software available here.

Box of Heptagons