In yesterday’s post, I unveiled my annual birthday star for my new age, 54. Today, I’m placing that 54-pointed star on each of the thirty faces of a rhombic triacontahedron. I use a program called Stella 4d (free trial available right here) to do this, and it allows images on polyhedron-faces to either be placed inside the face, or around the face. Here’s the “inside” version:
And here is the “around each face” version:
Which one do you like better?
This symmetrohedron includes, as faces, eight regular hexagons, six squares, and 24 isosceles triangles. I made it using Stella 4d, which you can try for free at this website.
Both the Platonic icosahedron and the golden icosahedron have twenty triangular faces. In the Platonic version, these faces are all equilateral triangles. The golden icosahedron has eight such triangles, but the other twelve are golden triangles, which have a leg-to-base ratio which is the golden ratio. These golden triangles appear in pairs, and the six pairs are arranged in such a way as to make this a solid with pyritohedral symmetry: the symmetry of a standard volleyball.
A net for the golden icosahedron appears below. Both images were made using a program called Stella 4d, which you can try for free right here.
This beauty appeared unexpectedly when I was playing around with polyhedra related to the icosahedron and dodecahedron, using Stella 4d: Polyhedron Navigator. You can try this program for yourself, free, at http://www.software3d.com/Stella.php.
I made this using Stella 4d, a program you can try for free right here.
This polyhedron has six faces which are regular octagons, sixty quadrilateral faces, and 32 triangular faces, eight of which are regular. I made it using Stella 4d, which you can try for free at http://www.software3d.com/Stella.php.
I made this by zonohedrificaton of an octahedron, using its faces, edges, and vertices, and software called Stella 4d, which you can try for free right here.
This polyhedron has six regular octagons (red), a dozen octagons which are merely equilateral (yellow), eight regular hexagons, and 24 squares.
I made this using Stella 4d, software you can try for free right here.
Icosahedra have twenty faces. In the image above, only twelve of those triangles are visible; the other eight have been hidden, so you can see what this solid looks like on the inside. The twelve which remain have pyritohedral symmetry — the symmetry of a volleyball.
I made this using Stella 4d, which you can try for free at http://www.software3d.com/Stella.php.
This polyhedron has 12 faces which are regular decagons, 150 quadrilateral faces, and 80 triangular faces, 20 of which are regular. I made it using Stella 4d, which you can try for free at http://www.software3d.com/Stella.php.
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