Tag Archives: zonohedra

A Zonohedron with 7802 Faces

Posted on 2 September 2017 by

Zonohedra with surprisingly large numbers of faces are easy to make with Stella 4d: Polyhedron Navigator. This program is sold at http://www.software3d.com/Stella.php, where there is also a free trial download offered.

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Nine Zonohedra

Posted on 3 July 2017 by

Software used to make these gifs: Stella 4d, available here.

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Six Zonohedra

Posted on 8 March 2017 by

Zonohedra are a subset of polyhedra. In a zonohedron, all the faces are zonogons. A zonogon is a polygon with an even number of sides, as well as having opposite sides both congruent and parallel. This small collection of rotating … Continue reading →

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Zonohedrified Rhombicosidodecahedron with 870 Rhombic Faces

Posted on 3 February 2017 by

Manipulating known polyhedra in the effort to find new ones, as I did here, is made easy with Stella 4d, a program available at this website.

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A Zonohedron with 1382 Faces

Posted on 1 November 2016 by

I used Stella 4d to make this zonohedron. This program may be tried for free at http://www.software3d.com/Stella.php.

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A Zonohedron Featuring 662 Faces: Octadecagons, Decagons, Octagons, Hexagons, and Rhombi

Posted on 30 October 2016 by

These polyhedral images were created with Stella 4d, a program you may try for free at this website.

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Zonohedra, Zonish Polyhedra, and Another Puzzle

Posted on 11 August 2016 by

In a recent post, I showed many images of zonohedra, then challenged readers to figure out, from the images, what zonohedra are: polyhedra with only zonogons as faces. Zonogons, I then explained, are polygons with (A) even numbers of edges, … Continue reading →

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