Compound of five great dodecahedra

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Compound of five great dodecahedra

This uniform polyhedron compound is a composition of 5 great dodecahedra, in the same arrangement as in the compound of 5 icosahedra.

Compound of five great dodecahedra
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TypeUniform compound
IndexUC49
Polyhedra5 great dodecahedra
Faces60 pentagons
Edges150
Vertices60
Symmetry groupicosahedral (Ih)
Subgroup restricting to one constituentpyritohedral (Th)

It is one of only five polyhedral compounds (along with the compound of six tetrahedra, the compound of two great dodecahedra, the compound of two small stellated dodecahedra, and the compound of five small stellated dodecahedra) which is vertex-transitive and face-transitive but not edge-transitive.

References

  • Skilling, John (1976), "Uniform Compounds of Uniform Polyhedra", Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, 79 (3): 447–457, doi:10.1017/S0305004100052440, MR 0397554.


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