Faceted Truncated Icosahedron

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Faceted Truncated Icosahedron

The faces of this are twelve interpenetrating regular pentagons, and twenty 6/2-gons (a type of star hexagon that looks like a radiation symbol).

This was created using software, Stella 4d, which you can find and try at http://www.software3d.com/stella.php.

Three

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Three

Snowfall

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Snowfall

Five

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Five

Four-Color Tessellation

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Four-Color Tessellation

Tessellation Featuring Squares, Triangles, and Dodecagons

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Tessellation Featuring Squares, Triangles, and Decagons

Radial Tessellation of the Plane Using Kites

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Radial Tessellation of the Plane Using Kites

The kites to use have side lengths in a ratio of one to the square root of three, and angle measures of 60, 90, 120, and 90 degrees.

Puckered Ring of Ten Great Rhombicosidodecahedra

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Puckered Ring of Ten Great Rhombicosidodecahedra

Created using software here: http://www.software3d.com/stella.php.

A Ball of Mica in Ultraviolet

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A Ball of Mica in Ultraviolet
(Software credit: see http://www.software3d.com/stella.php)

Icosahedral Cluster of Snub Dodecahedra

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Icosahedral Cluster of Snub Dodecahedra

http://www.software3d.com/stella,php — that’s the place to go to try the software used to make this