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What (who) is -hedron - definition

CATALAN POLYHEDRON
Triacontahedron; Rhombic triacontahedral; 30-hedron; Rhombic 30-hedron
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  • An example of stellations of the rhombic triacontahedron.
  • This animation shows a transformation from a [[cube]] to a rhombic triacontahedron by dividing the square faces into 4 squares and splitting middle edges into new rhombic faces.
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  • An example of the use of a rhombic triacontahedron in the design of a lamp
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  • 3D model of a rhombic triacontahedron
  • A topological rhombic triacontahedron in [[truncated octahedron]]

-hedron      
¦ combining form (plural -hedra or -hedrons) in nouns denoting geometrical solids having a specified number of plane faces: decahedron.
?denoting geometrical solids having faces of a specified shape: rhombohedron.
Derivatives
-hedral combining form.
Origin
from Gk hedra 'seat, base'.
icosahedron         
  • Progressions between an [[octahedron]], [[pseudoicosahedron]], and cuboctahedron. The cuboctahedron can flex this way even if its edges (but not its faces) are rigid.
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  • A [[tensegrity]] icosahedron
  • Spinoza]] monument in [[Amsterdam]]
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  • Jessen's icosahedron
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  • [[Rhombic icosahedron]]
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  • Construction from the vertices of a [[truncated octahedron]], showing internal rectangles.
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POLYHEDRON WITH 20 FACES
Icosahedral; Eicosahedron; Icosahedra; Icosasphere; Icosohedron; Icosohedran; Snub tetrahedron; Gyroelongated pentagonal dipyramid; Vertices of an icosahedron; Icosihedron; 20-face; Great stellatriakis icosahedron; Snub tetratetrahedron; Pseudoicosahedron; Pseudoicosahedra; Birectified Dodecahedron; Pseudo-icosahedron; 20-hedron; Pyritohedral icosahedron; Isocahedron; Icosahedrons
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¦ noun (plural icosahedra or icosahedrons) a three-dimensional shape having twenty plane faces, in particular a regular solid figure with twelve equal triangular faces.
Derivatives
icosahedral adjective
Origin
C16: via late L. from Gk eikosaedron, neut. (used asnoun) of eikosaedros 'twenty-faced'.
Icosahedron         
  • Progressions between an [[octahedron]], [[pseudoicosahedron]], and cuboctahedron. The cuboctahedron can flex this way even if its edges (but not its faces) are rigid.
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  • A [[tensegrity]] icosahedron
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  • [[Rhombic icosahedron]]
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POLYHEDRON WITH 20 FACES
Icosahedral; Eicosahedron; Icosahedra; Icosasphere; Icosohedron; Icosohedran; Snub tetrahedron; Gyroelongated pentagonal dipyramid; Vertices of an icosahedron; Icosihedron; 20-face; Great stellatriakis icosahedron; Snub tetratetrahedron; Pseudoicosahedron; Pseudoicosahedra; Birectified Dodecahedron; Pseudo-icosahedron; 20-hedron; Pyritohedral icosahedron; Isocahedron; Icosahedrons
·noun A solid bounded by twenty sides or faces.

Wikipedia

Rhombic triacontahedron

In geometry, the rhombic triacontahedron, sometimes simply called the triacontahedron as it is the most common thirty-faced polyhedron, is a convex polyhedron with 30 rhombic faces. It has 60 edges and 32 vertices of two types. It is a Catalan solid, and the dual polyhedron of the icosidodecahedron. It is a zonohedron.

The ratio of the long diagonal to the short diagonal of each face is exactly equal to the golden ratio, φ, so that the acute angles on each face measure 2 tan−1(1/φ) = tan−1(2), or approximately 63.43°. A rhombus so obtained is called a golden rhombus.

Being the dual of an Archimedean solid, the rhombic triacontahedron is face-transitive, meaning the symmetry group of the solid acts transitively on the set of faces. This means that for any two faces, A and B, there is a rotation or reflection of the solid that leaves it occupying the same region of space while moving face A to face B.

The rhombic triacontahedron is somewhat special in being one of the nine edge-transitive convex polyhedra, the others being the five Platonic solids, the cuboctahedron, the icosidodecahedron, and the rhombic dodecahedron.

The rhombic triacontahedron is also interesting in that its vertices include the arrangement of four Platonic solids. It contains ten tetrahedra, five cubes, an icosahedron and a dodecahedron. The centers of the faces contain five octahedra.

It can be made from a truncated octahedron by dividing the hexagonal faces into 3 rhombi:

Examples of use of -hedron
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