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Modifying a Snub Dodecahedron

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The polyhedron shown above is the snub dodecahedron, which is one of the Archimedean solids. The one shown below is its first stellation.

Next, each of the yellow faces was augmented with a tall prism.

The next step was to form the convex hull of the polyhedron above.

Finally, I used Stella 4d‘s “try to make faces regular” function on this convex hull. The result is below, and has 242 faces.

If you would like to try Stella 4d, the software I used to do all of this, simply visit http://www.software3d.com/Stella.php, and look for the free trial download.

A Fractured Octahedron

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Sometimes, when using Stella 4d (available here) to make various polyhedra, I lose track of how I got from wherever I started to the final step. That happened with this fractured version of an octahedron.

Eight Mandalas in Orbit

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The mandalas on the eight hexagonal faces of this truncated octahedron were first seen in the blog-post immediately before this one. The six square faces have been hidden, creating holes in their places.

I used Geometer’s Sketchpad and MS-Paint to make this pattern, based on a ring of twenty-two hendecagons. The work of projecting this image onto a polyhedron, as well as making this rotating .gif image, was performed using another program, Stella 4d: Polyhedron Navigator. If you’d like to try Stella for yourself, there’s a free trial download available at http://www.software3d.com/Stella.php.

Two Rhombic Polyhedra with Tessellated Faces

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These polyhedra are the rhombic dodecahedron (above), and the rhombic triacontahedron (below).

I made both of these using Stella 4d, which you can try for free at http://www.software3d.com/Stella.php. The tessellation on the faces of these polyhedra first appeared right here on this blog, in the post just before this one.

Five Variants of the Compound of Two Tetrahedra

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This is the compound of two tetrahedra, also known as Johannes Kepler’s Stella Octangula.

I found the five variations of this polyhedral compound shown below, located deep within the stellation-series of the great rhombicuboctahedron.

These .gif images were all made using Stella 4d, a program you can try for free at http://www.software3d.com/Stella.php.

Expanding the Icosidodecahedron

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This is the icosidodecahedron. It’s one of the thirteen Archimedean solids. To make an expanded version of it, I first augmented each of its faces with a prism.

Next, I formed the augmented icosidodecahedron’s convex hull.

This expanded icosidodecahedron has the twelve pentagonal faces (shown in red) and twenty triangular faces (shown in blue) of the original icosidodechedron. It also has sixty rectangular faces (yellow), and sixty isosceles triangles (shown in green). That’s a total of 152 faces.

To do all of this, I used a program called Stella 4d. If you’d like to try Stella for yourself, for free, just visit this website: http://www.software3d.com/Stella.php.