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Stars, Pentagons, and Rhombi #2
This is an expansion of the last post here. It may be possible to continue this tiling outward indefnitely, forming an aperioidic tiling — or it may not. I am simply uncertain about this
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Tagged Art, geometric, geometrical, mathematical, Mathematics, pentagon, tessellation, tiling
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Tessellation of Blue Triangles and Yellow Concave Pentagons
Alternately, this can be seen as a tessellation of blue diconcave hexagons and yellow triconcave enneagons. Which do you see?
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Tagged enneagon, geometry, hexagon, Mathematics, nonagon, pentagon, tessellation, triangle
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A Polyhedron Made of Enneagons and Pentagons
This polyhedron has 20 enneagons and 12+60=72 pentagons (of two types) as faces. I made it using Stella 4d, which is available at http://www.software3d.com/Stella.php.
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Tagged enneagon, geometry, Mathematics, nonagon, pentagon, polyhedra, polyhedron
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Triacontahedron with Two Dozen Pentagonal Faces
Of the thirty faces of this polyhedron, only the yellow parallelograms are not pentagons. I used Stella 4d to make this; you may try it for free at http://www.software3d.com/Stella.php.
