Playing with One of Stella’s “Morph Duals” Functions

“Morph Duals By Tilting To Duals” is a Stella 4d feature that I haven’t used much. Here’s what happens if you apply it to an icosahedron, at the 50% morphing level: you get the compound of the icosahedron and its dual, the dodecahedron,

If you apply this same operation a second time, here’s what you get.

This appears to be a three-part compound, with two familiar components: the icosahedron (red) and the dodecahedron (orange). Remove those two components, and you get this:

Since this reminds me of an icosidodecahedron, I colored its faces to better suit that identity.

Little peeks at the edges of the solid above made me suspicious, so I hid these purple and green faces, to see the inner structure. Here’s the result.

I made all of these using Stella 4d, which you can try free at http://www.software3d.com/Stella.php.

A Four-Part Polyhedral Compound

I stumbled upon this compound while playing with Stella 4d, a program you can try for free right here.

The Pyramid-Augmented Cuboctahedron

I made this using Stella 4d, which you can try for free right here.

A Polyhedron With Sixty Isosceles Trapezoids and Twelve Regular Pentagons as Faces

The polyhedron above is the convex hull of the pyramid-augmented snub dodecahedron seen in the last post. The one below is its dual, and its faces are sixty kites, and twenty equilateral triangles.

I made these using Stella 4d, which you can try for free right here.

A Snub Dodecahedron, Augmented With Pyramids

I made this using Stella 4d, which you can try for free right here.

A Compound of Five Tetrahedra and One Small Stellated Dodecahedron

I made this using Stella 4d, a program you can try for free right here.

A Tetrahedron Variant

I made this using Stella 4d, which you can try for free at http://www.software3d.com/Stella.php.

Augmenting the Truncated Icosahedron

Here’s a truncated icosahedron, one of the thirteen Archimedean solids.

The next image shows this solid with its hexagonal faces augmented by prisms.

This augmented polyhedron has an interesting dual:

Finally, here’s this dual shown in “rainbow color mode.”

These images were created with Stella 4d, a program you can try for free right here.

Compound of Two Stellated Polyhedra

The yellow component of this compound is the small stellated dodecahedron. As for the blue component, I’m not sure what it’s called. I made this using Stella 4d, which you can try for free right here.

A Twisted and Stellated Polyhedron

I stumbled upon this polyhedron while doing a “random walk” session with Stella 4d: Polyhedron Navigator. If you’d like to try this program for free, you can get a free trial download at this website.