GREAT STELLATED DODECAHEDRON


In geometry, the 'great stellated dodecahedron' is a Kepler-Poinsot polyhedron. It is one of four nonconvex regular polyhedra.
It is composed of 12 pentagrammic faces, with three pentagrams meeting at each vertex.
It shares its vertex arrangement with the regualar dodecahedron.
Shaving the triangular pyramids off results in an icosahedron.
If the pentagrammic faces are broken into triangles, it is topologically related to the triakis icosahedron, with the same face connectivity, but much taller isosceles triangle faces.

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As a stellation
References
External links

As a stellation


It can also be constructed as the third of three stellations of the dodecahedron, and referenced as Wenninger model [W22].
The stellation facets for construction are:
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References



Polyhedron Models, , Magnus, Wenninger, Cambridge University Press, 1974, ISBN 0-521-09859-9

External links



MathWorld: Great stellated dodecahedron


MathWorld: Three stellations of the dodecahedron

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