Octahedral Nulloid

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Octahedral Nulloid

A nulloid is a polyhedron with zero volume.

See http://www.software3d.com/stella.php for the software used to produce this image.

Faceted Icosahedron with Tetrahedral Symmetry

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Faceted Icosahedron with Tetrahedral Symmetry

Go Fly Sixty Kites!

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Go Fly Sixty Kites!

Because just about anyone can fly one kite at a time….

(Software credit: see http://www.software3d.com/stella.php)

Faceted Rhombic Triacontahedron

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Faceted Rhombic Triacontahedron

Want to try making these yourself? Just pop over to http://www.software3d.com/stella.php — there’s a free trial download available.

Speculation About a Zonish Polyhedron

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Speculation About a Zonish Polyhedron

If the longer hexagon/octagon sides were all shortened, could this become nearly regular, thus qualifying it to join the “near-misses?” As it is, those long edges are too long to call it by that term, but perhaps this can be fixed.

(Note: If you’d like to make stuff like this yourself, you should check out http://www.software3d.com/stella.php.)

Compound of Four Parallelopipeds

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Compound of Four Parallelopipeds

Software used: see http://www.software3d.com/stella.php

Faceted Rhombicosidodecahedron II

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Faceted Rhombicosidodecahedron

Software used: see http://www.software3d.com/stella.php.

A Polyhedron Featuring Kites

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Polyhedron Featuring Kites

This polyhedron has sixty faces which are kites, and twelve which are regular pentagons. It was created, by stellating a snub dodecahedron, using software you can find at http://www.software3d.com/stella.php.

Violet Pyramids Hiding a Rotating Cube

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Blue Pyramids Hiding a Rotating Cube

Software used: see http://www.software3d.com/stella.php.

Compound of the Tesseract and Its Dual, the 16-Cell

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Compound of the Tesseract and Its Dual, the 16-Cell

Software used: see http://www.software3d.com/stella.php.