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Polyhedron with 180 Triangular Faces

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Polyhedron with 180 Triangular Faces

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Cube-Based Polyhedron Featuring Regular Icosagons, Regular Hexagons, and Isosceles Trapezoids

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Polyhedron Featuring Regular Icosagons, Regular Hexagons, and Isosceles Trapezoids

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Cube-Based Polyhedron Featuring Regular Icosagons, Equilateral Triangles, Isosceles Trapezoids, and Rectangles

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Polyhedron Featuring Regular Icosagons, Equilateral Triangles, Trapezoids, and Rectangles

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Polyhedron Featuring 182 Faces

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Polyhedron Featuring 182 Faces

The faces are:

12 regular pentagons
20 equilateral triangles
30 regular octagons
60 blue isosceles trapezoids
60 yellow isosceles trapezoids

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A Cube-Based “Bowtie” Symmetrohedron Featuring Six Regular Hexadecagons, Eight Equilateral Triangles, and Two Dozen Each of Two Types of Icosceles Trapezoid

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A Cube-Based Symmetrohedron Featuring Six Regular Hexadecagons, Eight Equilateral Triangles, and Two Types of Icosceles Trapezoids

The two types of trapezoid are shown in blue and green. There are twenty-four blue ones (in eights set of three, surrounding each triangle) and twenty-four green ones (in twelve sets of two, with each set in “bowtie” formation).

This symmetrohedron follows logically from one that was already known, and pictured at http://www.cgl.uwaterloo.ca/~csk/projects/symmetrohedra/, with the name “bowtie cube.” Here’s a rotating version of it.

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A Symmetrical Arrangement of Regular Octagons, Triangles, and Squares

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A Symmetrical Arrangement of Regular Octagons, Triangles, and Squares

This contains twelve octagons, six squares, and eight triangles. The “holes” in it keep it from being a true polyhedron, but it is my hope than further study of this arrangement may lead to the discovery of new, interesting, and symmetrical polyhedra.

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150 Irregular Hexagons, Rotating About a Common Axis

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150 Irregular Hexagons, Rotating About a Common Axis

There are sixty of the irregaular, pentagonal gaps. Also, the hexagons themselves are of three types, two of which are sixty in number, and one of which is thirty in number.

If the gaps are filled, and the color scheme changed to make each of the four polygon-types into its own color-group, this looks, instead, like this (click on it if you wish to see it enlarged). It has 210 faces.