Polyhedron Featuring Twenty Regular Enneagons, Twelve Regular Pentagons, and Sixty Isosceles Triangles

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Polyhedron Featuring Twenty Regular Nonagons, Twelve Regular Pentagons, and Sixty Isosceles Triangles

If the isosceles triangles in this polyhedron were close enough to being equilateral that close inspection would be required to tell the difference, this would be a near-miss to the Johnson Solids. However, in my opinion, this doesn’t meet that test — so I’m calling this a “near-near-miss,” instead.

Software credit: visit this website if you would like to try a free trial download of Stella 4d, the program I used to create this image.

140-Faced Polyhedron Featuring Twenty Nonagons, Plus Sixty Each of Two Types of Pentagon

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140-Faced Polyhedron Featuring Twenty Nonagons, Plus Sixty Each of Two Types of Pentagon

Software credit: just visit http://www.software3d.com/Stella.php to try or buy the software, Stella 4d, which I used to make this polyhedron.

A “Bowtie” Polyhedron Featuring Regular Enneagons and Octagons

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So far as I know, no one knows how many otherwise-regular convex “bowtie” polyhedra exist — that is, convex polyhedra whose only faces are regular polygons, and pairs of isosceles trapezoids in “bowtie” formation. With the aid of software called Stella 4d, which you can find at http://www.software3d.com/Stella.php, I do believe I’ve found another one which hasn’t been seen before.

To make it, I started with what is probably the most well-known near-miss to the Johnson Solids, this polyhedron featuring enneagons (nine-sided polygons; also called “nonagons”):

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I then augmented each enneagonal face with regular antiprisms, took the convex hull of the result, and then used Stella’s “try to make faces regular” function — and it worked, making the octagons regular, as well as the enneagons.

Update:  It turns out that this polyhedron has been seen before.  It’s at http://www.cgl.uwaterloo.ca/~csk/projects/symmetrohedra/ — and there are even more at http://www.cgl.uwaterloo.ca/~csk/papers/kaplan_hart_bridges2001.pdf. These include several more “bowtie” polyhedra found among what those researchers, Craig S. Kaplan and George W. Hart, call “symmetrohedra.” They call this particular polyhedron a “bowtie octahedron.”

A “Bowtie” Polyhedron Featuring Regular Decagons and Nonagons

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This is the sequel to the previous post. Making the decagons and nonagons regular, using Stella 4d, proved to be quite easy!

Software credit: see http://www.software3d.com/stella.php (free trial download available).