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Great stellated dodecahedron

Kepler–Poinsot polyhedron From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Great stellated dodecahedron
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In geometry, the great stellated dodecahedron is a Kepler–Poinsot polyhedron, with Schläfli symbol {5/2,3}. It is one of four nonconvex regular polyhedra.

Great stellated dodecahedron
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TypeKepler–Poinsot polyhedron
Stellation coreregular dodecahedron
ElementsF = 12, E = 30
V = 20 (χ = 2)
Faces by sides12 { 52 }
Schläfli symbol{52,3}
Face configurationV(35)/2
Wythoff symbol3 | 2 52
Coxeter diagram
Symmetry groupIh, H3, [5,3], (*532)
ReferencesU52, C68, W22
PropertiesRegular nonconvex
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(52)3
(Vertex figure)
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Great icosahedron
(dual polyhedron)
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3D model of a great stellated dodecahedron

It is composed of 12 intersecting pentagrammic faces, with three pentagrams meeting at each vertex.

It shares its vertex arrangement, although not its vertex figure or vertex configuration, with the regular dodecahedron, as well as being a stellation of a (smaller) dodecahedron. It is the only dodecahedral stellation with this property, apart from the dodecahedron itself. Its dual, the great icosahedron, is related in a similar fashion to the icosahedron.

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. If the triangles are instead made to invert themselves and excavate the central icosahedron, the result is a great dodecahedron.

The great stellated dodecahedron can be constructed analogously to the pentagram, its two-dimensional analogue, by attempting to stellate the n-dimensional pentagonal polytope (which has pentagonal polytope faces and simplex vertex figures) until it can no longer be stellated; that is, it is its final stellation.

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For a great stellated dodecahedron with edge length E (where E represents the length of any edge of the internal icosahedron),

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Animated truncation sequence from {52, 3} to {3, 52}

A truncation process applied to the great stellated dodecahedron produces a series of uniform polyhedra. Truncating edges down to points produces the great icosidodecahedron as a rectified great stellated dodecahedron. The process completes as a birectification, reducing the original faces down to points, and producing the great icosahedron.

The truncated great stellated dodecahedron is a degenerate polyhedron, with 20 triangular faces from the truncated vertices, and 12 (hidden) pentagonal faces as truncations of the original pentagram faces, the latter forming a great dodecahedron inscribed within and sharing the edges of the icosahedron.

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References

  • Wenninger, Magnus (1974). Polyhedron Models. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-09859-9.
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