This polyhedron has 4292 faces. In the first image shown, they are colored by face type. In the second, the coloring is done by the number of sides of each face.
Finally, the last image here shows this zonish polyhedron in “rainbow color mode.” All of these images were made using Stella 4d: Polyhedron Navigator, which you can try for free at http://www.software3d.com/Stella.php.
All of the edges of this polyhedron have the same length. I made it using Stella 4d: Polyhedron Navigator, which you can try for free at this website.
The snub dodecahedron may be thought of as a dozen regular pentagons, surrounded and separated by a sea of triangles. In this expansion of that Archimedean solid, thirty parallelograms are added to the mix, also surrounded by triangles. In the image above, coloring is by face type — for example, the yellow triangles are those triangles which share an edge with a pentagon. Other triangles have other colors.
The image shown below is of the same polyhedron, but with a different coloring-scheme. In it, all triangles are given the same color, even when their shapes are slightly different.
This polyhedron has an interesting all-pentagon dual, which is shown below. This dual has sixty each of both the small and large pentagons, for a total of 120 faces.
I used Stella 4d: Polyhedron Navigator to create these polyhedra, and to make these rotating images. This program may be tried for free at http://www.software3d.com/Stella.php.
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.
I made this using Stella 4d: Polyhedron Navigator, a program you can try for free at http://www.software3d.com/Stella.php.
I made this using Stella 4d, which you can try for yourself, for free, at http://www.software3d.com/Stella.php.
I made this using Stella 4d: Polyhedron Navigator, a program you can try for free at this website.
To make this polyhedron, I started with a snub dodecahedron. Next, I augmented all triangular faces of it with prisms, then took the convex hull of the result. Finally, I used Stella 4d‘s “try to make faces regular” function on the convex hull.
If you’d like to try the trial version of Stella for yourself, the website to visit is http://www.software3d.com/Stella.php.
Software used — Stella 4d: Polyhedral Navigator, available as a free trial download at http://www.software3d.com/Stella.php.
The polyhedron above reminded me of the snub dodecahedron, which is shown below. Both rotating images were made using Stella 4d, which you can try for yourself — with a free trial download available — right here.
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