A Polyhedron Made of Lightning Bolts and Triskelions

Posted on 21 March 2017 by RobertLovesPi

triskelions and lightning bolts

This was made using Stella 4d: Polyhedron Navigator, a program available here.

Twenty Rotating Triskelions, Made of Kites

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Twenty Rotating Triskelions, Made of Kites

Created using Stella 4d, software available at http://www.software3d.com/Stella.php.

Eight Rotating Triskelions

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Eight Rotating Triskelions

I could not have made this without Stella 4d, software you can try for free (as a trial version), or buy, at http://www.software3d.com/Stella.php.

Lightning Bolts and Triskelions

The yellow “triskelions” here are twenty in number, and are made of three irregular pentagons each. The red “lightning bolts” between them are thirty in number, and are made with two irregular quadrilaterals each.

I stumbled across this polyhedron by accident, while playing with different polyhedral transformations possible using Stella 4d: Polyhedron Navigator. You may try this software yourself at http://www.software3d.com/Stella.php as a free trial download, before deciding whether to purchase the fully-functioning version.

Polyhedron Featuring Triskelions

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Polyhedron Featuring Triskelions

I was surfing the universe of polyhedra with the program Stella 4d (you can find it at http://www.software3d.com/Stella.php), and stumbled across this. The triskelions themselves don’t spin — although they do seem to if you watch this long enough.