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In geometry, the first stellation of the rhombic dodecahedron is a self-intersecting polyhedron with 12 faces, each of which is a non-convex hexagon. It is a stellation of the rhombic dodecahedron and has the same outer shell and the same visual appearance as two other shapes: a solid, Escher's solid, with 48 triangular faces, and a polyhedral compound of three flattened octahedra with 24 ...
The first stellation, often called the stellated rhombic dodecahedron, can be seen as a rhombic dodecahedron with each face augmented by attaching a rhombic-based pyramid to it, with a pyramid height such that the sides lie in the face planes of the neighbouring faces. Luke describes four more stellations: the second and third stellations ...
Small stellated dodecahedron: Dodecahedron: Great stellated dodecahedron: Dodecahedron: Stellated octahedron: Octahedron: Compound of five octahedra: Icosahedron: Compound of five tetrahedra: Icosahedron: Small triambic icosahedron: Icosahedron: Great triambic icosahedron: Icosahedron: Compound of five cubes: Rhombic triacontahedron: Compound ...
The rhombic dodecahedron packs together to fill space. The rhombic dodecahedron can be seen as a degenerate pyritohedron where the 6 special edges have been reduced to zero length, reducing the pentagons into rhombic faces. The rhombic dodecahedron has several stellations, the first of which is also a parallelohedral spacefiller.
In 1619 Kepler defined stellation for polygons and polyhedra as the process of extending edges or faces until they meet to form a new polygon or polyhedron.. He stellated the regular dodecahedron to obtain two regular star polyhedra, the small stellated dodecahedron and the great stellated dodecahedron.
Rhombic hexahedron (Dual of tetratetrahedron) — V(3.3.3.3) arccos (0) = π / 2 90° Rhombic dodecahedron (Dual of cuboctahedron) — V(3.4.3.4) arccos (- 1 / 2 ) = 2 π / 3 120° Rhombic triacontahedron (Dual of icosidodecahedron) — V(3.5.3.5) arccos (- √ 5 +1 / 4 ) = 4 π / 5 144° Medial rhombic ...
The rhombicosidodecahedron shares the vertex arrangement with the small stellated truncated dodecahedron, and with the uniform compounds of six or twelve pentagrammic prisms. The Zometool kits for making geodesic domes and other polyhedra use slotted balls as connectors. The balls are "expanded" rhombicosidodecahedra, with the squares replaced ...
This is an indexed list of the uniform and stellated polyhedra from the book Polyhedron Models, by Magnus Wenninger. The book was written as a guide book to building polyhedra as physical models. It includes templates of face elements for construction and helpful hints in building, and also brief descriptions on the theory behind these shapes.