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The Thirtieth Stellation of the Great Rhombicosidodecahedron
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Thirty-Two Truncated Icosahedra, Clustered Around a Much Larger Icosidodecahedron
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A Rhombic Triacontahedron, Peeking Through the Faces of an Icosahedron
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The Convex Hull of the Polyhedral Cluster Found in the Previous Post
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A Central Icosahedron, Augmented with Rhombicosidodecahedra On Each Face
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An Interesting Stellated Polyhedron
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This polyhedron resembles a cuboctahedron, more than any other familiar polyhedra — but cuboctahedra were not used, at all, in its construction. To make it, I started with the cube of eight truncated octahedra seen in the previous post, and then stellated that figure many times. (How many? Enough times that I lost count — that’s how many.)
Stella 4d was used for this, and you may try it for free at http://www.software3d.com/stella.php.
A Cubic Arrangement of Truncated Octahedra
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This cubic arrangement of eight truncated octahedra has a hole in the center, and indentations in the center of each face of the cube. What would fit in these gaps? More truncated octahedra of the same size, that’s what. This wouldn’t be true for most polyhedra, but the truncated octahedron is unusual in that it can fill space without leaving gaps — much like hexagons can tile a plane, but in three dimensions.
Stella 4d was used to create this image, and you may try it for free at http://www.software3d.com/stella.php.
A Cube of Snub Cubes
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This cubic arrangement of eight snub cubes, one of the minority of polyhedra which are chiral, includes four “right-handed” snub cubes, and four that are “left-handed.”
Stella 4d was used to create this image, and you may try it for free at http://www.software3d.com/Stella.php.
An Enantiomorphic Pair of Snub Cubes
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Unlike most polyhedra, the snub cube is chiral, meaning it exists in “left-handed” and “right-handed” forms. In this fused pair of snub cubes, there is one of each type.
Stella 4d was used to create this image, and you may try it for free at http://www.software3d.com/stella.php.
An Enantiomorphic Pair of Snub Dodecahedra
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Unlike most polyhedra, the snub dodecahedron is chiral, meaning it exists in “left-handed” and “right-handed” forms. In this fused pair of snub dodecahedra, there is one of each type.
Stella 4d was used to create this image, and you may try it for free at www.software3d.com/stella.php.
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