A Polyhedron Made of a Dozen Convex Heptagons and a Dozen Equilateral Triangles

This is the second tetstell of the icosidodecahedron. Tetstelling is like normal stellation, except you drop the symmetry of the model to tetrahedral first. It’s an easy trick with Stella 4d, the program I used to make this. You can try it, free, at this website.

Here it is, in the colors Stella chose when I made it again, just now, to double-check those “dozens” in the title of this post.

Two Tetstells of the Dodecahedron

To “tetstell” a polyhedron (and yes, I just made that word up) is to drop its symmetry from either octahedral or icosahedral down to tetrahedral, and then stellate it. Here’s an example: the second tetstell of the dodecahedron.

Here’s another one: the eighth tetstell of the dodecahedron.

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