Convex Rhombic Polyhedra with Icosahedral Symmetry
This page collects together the various polyhedra I have come across which meet the following criteria
The last criterion is included purely as
a
measure to limit the number of qualifying polyhedra.
Some of the polyhedra displayed here are also displayed elsewhere on this site in which case a link is provided. Others are new, in which case a short explanation is provided.
I do not expect this list to be complete - Roger Kaufman discovered four new examples in 2014. Contributions are welcome.
One form of rhombus
Rhombic Triacontahedron (a=63.435°) LINK |
Expanded Rhombic Triacontahedron (a=63.435°) LINK |
'Snub' Rhombic Triacontahedron (a=62.967°) Take an expanded rhombic triacontahedron, divide each square into two triangles and allow to relax. Note the rhombi are different to those in the original rhombic triacontahedron. OFF
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Rhombi-propello-icosahedron (a=66.140°) LINK |
'Faceted' Rhombic Enneacontahedron (a=53.130°) Take a rhombic enneacontahedron and connect the obtuse vertices of the 'thin' rhombi. Then allow to relax. OFF
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Rhombified Goldberg Fullerene C80 (a=60.961°). Take the dual of a geodesic sphere of frequency 2, replace the distorted hexagons with rhombus/triangle complexes and allow to relax. Discovered by Roger Kaufman. OFF
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Rhombified Petrie Expanded Truncated Dodecahedron (a=60.961°). Take the Petrie expanded truncated dodecahedron, replace the distorted hexagons with rhombus/triangle complexes and allow to relax. This can also be regarded as an expanded version of Roger Kaufman's Rhombified Goldberg Fullerene C80. OFF |
Rhombified Face Faceted Truncated Dodecahedron (a=48.471°). Take a truncated dodecahedron, replace the decagons with complexes of a pentagon surrounded by five triangles and five rhombi. Relax the model. OFF |
Two forms of rhombi
Rhombic Enneacontahedron (a1=70.529°, a2=41.810°) LINK |
Rhombified Stellated Snub Rhombic Triacontahedron (a1=67.761°, a2=71.276°): Take the snub rhombic triacontahedron above and stellate the pentagonal faces. Relax the model so that the subsequent kite faces become rhombi. OFF
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Faceted Tetra-linear rhombic polyhedron (a1=63.783°, a2=60.390°): Take the tetra-linear rhombic polyhedron (below) and facet off the pentagonal vertices, leaving pentagons surrounded by triangles. Relax the model. OFF
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Faceted Zonish Snub Icosidodecahedron (Type A) (a1=62.174°, a2=61.393°): Discovered by Roger Kaufman in 2014. It is based on a particular zonish snub icosidodecahedron (OFF) as shown in George Hart's Zonish Polyhedra page (bottom left). The distorted hexagons can be split into two rhombi and subsequently relaxed. OFF |
Faceted Zonish Snub Icosidodecahedron (Type B) (a1=54.957°, a2=65.645°): Discovered by Roger Kaufman in 2014. It is based on the same figure as the Type A version. The distorted hexagons are in this case split into two triangles and on rhombus, then relaxed. OFF |
Three forms of rhombi
Rhombified Face Faceted Truncated Icosidodecahedron (a1=73.912°, a2=60.144°, a3=48.786°). Take a truncated icosidodecahedron, replace the hexagons with complexes of three rhombi, the squares with rhombi, and the decagons with complexes of a pentagon surrounded by five triangles and five rhombi. Relax the model. OFF |
Rhombified Face Faceted Petrie Expanded Truncated Dodecahedron (a1=73.480°, a2=60.885°, a3=49.166°). Take a rhombified Petrie expanded truncated dodecahedron, replace the decagons with complexes of a pentagon surrounded by five triangles and five rhombi and the squares with rhombi. Relax the model. OFF
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Rhombified Face Faceted Goldberg Fullerene C140 (a1=68.789°, a2=63.435°, a3=47.870°). Take a snub dodecahedron, triangulate the pentagonal faces and take the dual. Replace the hexagons with complexes of three distinct rhombi. Relax the model. Note that the pale rhombi in this model are golden rhombi. OFF
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Tetra-linear rhombic polyhedron. (a1=73.531°, a2=68.789°, a3=60.533°). Following the sequence of the rhombi-propello-icosahedron (with rhombi in lines of 2) and the rhombified stellated snub rhombic triacontahedron (with rhombi in lines of 3) comes the above polyhedron with rhombi in lines of 4. The hexagonal faces formed by the subdivision of the triangular sections are themselves subdivided into complexes of three rhombi. OFF |
Stellated Faceted Zonish Snub Icosidodecahedron (Type A) (a1=61.596°, a2=70.529°, a3=68.119°): Discovered by Roger Kaufman in 2014.Take the Faceted Zonish Snub Icosidodecahedron (Type A) and stellate the pentagonal faces to form complexes of 5 rhombi. Relax the model. Note that the 'brown' rhombi are golden rhombi. OFF |
Stellated Faceted Zonish Snub Icosidodecahedron (Type B) (a1=54.424°, a2=75.015°, a3=68.500°): Discovered by Roger Kaufman in 2014.Take the Faceted Zonish Snub Icosidodecahedron (Type B) and stellate the pentagonal faces to form complexes of 5 rhombi. Relax the model. OFF |
3 by 1:
The Rhombified Face
Faceted Truncated Icosidodecahedron
Credits
The original dual figures were produced
using Great
Stella and relaxed using HEDRON.
Thanks to Roger Kaufman for his contributions.