Disdyakis triacontahedron

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Disdyakis triacontahedron
Disdyakistriacontahedron.jpg
(rotating and 3D model)
Type Catalan
Conway notation mD or dbD
Coxeter diagram CDel node f1.pngCDel 5.pngCDel node f1.pngCDel 3.pngCDel node f1.png
Face polygon DU28 facets.png
scalene triangle
Faces120
Edges180
Vertices62 = 12 + 20 + 30
Face configuration V4.6.10
Symmetry group Ih, H3, [5,3], (*532)
Rotation group I, [5,3]+, (532)
Dihedral angle
Dual polyhedron Polyhedron great rhombi 12-20 max.png
truncated
icosidodecahedron
Propertiesconvex, face-transitive
Disdyakis 30 net.svg
net

In geometry, a disdyakis triacontahedron, hexakis icosahedron, decakis dodecahedron or kisrhombic triacontahedron [1] is a Catalan solid with 120 faces and the dual to the Archimedean truncated icosidodecahedron. As such it is face-uniform but with irregular face polygons. It slightly resembles an inflated rhombic triacontahedron: if one replaces each face of the rhombic triacontahedron with a single vertex and four triangles in a regular fashion, one ends up with a disdyakis triacontahedron. That is, the disdyakis triacontahedron is the Kleetope of the rhombic triacontahedron. It is also the barycentric subdivision of the regular dodecahedron and icosahedron. It has the most faces among the Archimedean and Catalan solids, with the snub dodecahedron, with 92 faces, in second place.

Contents

If the bipyramids, the gyroelongated bipyramids, and the trapezohedra are excluded, the disdyakis triacontahedron has the most faces of any other strictly convex polyhedron where every face of the polyhedron has the same shape.

Projected into a sphere, the edges of a disdyakis triacontahedron define 15 great circles. Buckminster Fuller used these 15 great circles, along with 10 and 6 others in two other polyhedra to define his 31 great circles of the spherical icosahedron.

Geometry

Being a Catalan solid with triangular faces, the disdyakis triacontahedron's three face angles and common dihedral angle must obey the following constraints analogous to other Catalan solids:

The above four equations are solved simultaneously to get the following face angles and dihedral angle:

where is the golden ratio.

As with all Catalan solids, the dihedral angles at all edges are the same, even though the edges may be of different lengths.

Cartesian coordinates

The fundamental domains of icosahedral symmetry form a spherical version of a disdyakis triacontahedron. Each triangle can be mapped to another triangle of the same color by means of a 3D rotation alone. Triangles of different colors can be mapped to each other with a reflection or inversion in addition to rotations. Icosahedral reflection domains.png
The fundamental domains of icosahedral symmetry form a spherical version of a disdyakis triacontahedron. Each triangle can be mapped to another triangle of the same color by means of a 3D rotation alone. Triangles of different colors can be mapped to each other with a reflection or inversion in addition to rotations.
Disdyakis triacontahedron hulls. Disdyakis Triacontahedron.svg
Disdyakis triacontahedron hulls.

The 62 vertices of a disdyakis triacontahedron are given by: [2]

where

,
, and
is the golden ratio.

In the above coordinates, the first 12 vertices form a regular icosahedron, the next 20 vertices (those with R) form a regular dodecahedron, and the last 30 vertices (those with S) form an icosidodecahedron.

Normalizing all vertices to the unit sphere gives a spherical disdyakis triacontahedron, shown in the adjacent figure. This figure also depicts the 120 transformations associated with the full icosahedral group Ih.

Symmetry

The edges of the polyhedron projected onto a sphere form 15 great circles, and represent all 15 mirror planes of reflective Ih icosahedral symmetry. Combining pairs of light and dark triangles define the fundamental domains of the nonreflective (I) icosahedral symmetry. The edges of a compound of five octahedra also represent the 10 mirror planes of icosahedral symmetry.

Disdyakis 30.png
Disdyakis
triacontahedron
Disdyakis 30 in deltoidal 60.png
Deltoidal
hexecontahedron
Disdyakis 30 in rhombic 30.png
Rhombic
triacontahedron
Disdyakis 30 in Platonic 12.png
Dodecahedron
Disdyakis 30 in Platonic 20.png
Icosahedron
Disdyakis 30 in pyritohedron.png
Pyritohedron

Orthogonal projections

The disdyakis triacontahedron has three types of vertices which can be centered in orthogonally projection:

Orthogonal projections
Projective
symmetry
[2][6][10]
Image Dual dodecahedron t012 f4.png Dual dodecahedron t012 A2.png Dual dodecahedron t012 H3.png
Dual
image
Dodecahedron t012 f4.png Dodecahedron t012 A2.png Dodecahedron t012 H3.png

Uses

Big Chop puzzle Disdyakis triacontahedron dodecahedral 12-color.png
Big Chop puzzle

The disdyakis triacontahedron, as a regular dodecahedron with pentagons divided into 10 triangles each, is considered the "holy grail" for combination puzzles like the Rubik's cube. This unsolved problem, often called the "big chop" problem, currently has no satisfactory mechanism. It is the most significant unsolved problem in mechanical puzzles. [3]

This shape was used to make d120 dice using 3D printing. [4] Since 2016, the Dice Lab has used the disdyakis triacontahedron to mass market an injection moulded 120 sided die. [5] It is claimed that the d120 is the largest number of possible faces on a fair die, aside from infinite families (such as right regular prisms, bipyramids, and trapezohedra) that would be impractical in reality due to the tendency to roll for a long time. [6]

A disdyakis tricontahedron projected onto a sphere is used as the logo for Brilliant, a website containing series of lessons on STEM-related topics. [7]

Conway polyhedron m3I.png Conway polyhedron m3D.png
Polyhedra similar to the disdyakis triacontahedron are duals to the Bowtie icosahedron and dodecahedron, containing extra pairs of triangular faces. [8]
Family of uniform icosahedral polyhedra
Symmetry: [5,3], (*532)[5,3]+, (532)
Uniform polyhedron-53-t0.svg Uniform polyhedron-53-t01.svg Uniform polyhedron-53-t1.svg Uniform polyhedron-53-t12.svg Uniform polyhedron-53-t2.svg Uniform polyhedron-53-t02.png Uniform polyhedron-53-t012.png Uniform polyhedron-53-s012.png
CDel node 1.pngCDel 5.pngCDel node.pngCDel 3.pngCDel node.pngCDel node 1.pngCDel 5.pngCDel node 1.pngCDel 3.pngCDel node.pngCDel node.pngCDel 5.pngCDel node 1.pngCDel 3.pngCDel node.pngCDel node.pngCDel 5.pngCDel node 1.pngCDel 3.pngCDel node 1.pngCDel node.pngCDel 5.pngCDel node.pngCDel 3.pngCDel node 1.pngCDel node 1.pngCDel 5.pngCDel node.pngCDel 3.pngCDel node 1.pngCDel node 1.pngCDel 5.pngCDel node 1.pngCDel 3.pngCDel node 1.pngCDel node h.pngCDel 5.pngCDel node h.pngCDel 3.pngCDel node h.png
{5,3} t{5,3} r{5,3} t{3,5} {3,5} rr{5,3} tr{5,3} sr{5,3}
Duals to uniform polyhedra
Icosahedron.svg Triakisicosahedron.jpg Rhombictriacontahedron.svg Pentakisdodecahedron.jpg Dodecahedron.svg Deltoidalhexecontahedron.jpg Disdyakistriacontahedron.jpg Pentagonalhexecontahedronccw.jpg
V5.5.5 V3.10.10 V3.5.3.5 V5.6.6 V3.3.3.3.3 V3.4.5.4 V4.6.10 V3.3.3.3.5

It is topologically related to a polyhedra sequence defined by the face configuration V4.6.2n. This group is special for having all even number of edges per vertex and form bisecting planes through the polyhedra and infinite lines in the plane, and continuing into the hyperbolic plane for any n ≥ 7.

With an even number of faces at every vertex, these polyhedra and tilings can be shown by alternating two colors so all adjacent faces have different colors.

Each face on these domains also corresponds to the fundamental domain of a symmetry group with order 2,3,n mirrors at each triangle face vertex. This is *n32 in orbifold notation, and [n,3] in Coxeter notation.

*n32 symmetry mutation of omnitruncated tilings: 4.6.2n
Sym.
*n32
[n,3]
Spherical Euclid. Compact hyperb.Paraco.Noncompact hyperbolic
*232
[2,3]
*332
[3,3]
*432
[4,3]
*532
[5,3]
*632
[6,3]
*732
[7,3]
*832
[8,3]
*32
[,3]
 
[12i,3]
 
[9i,3]
 
[6i,3]
 
[3i,3]
Figures Spherical truncated trigonal prism.png Uniform tiling 332-t012.png Uniform tiling 432-t012.png Uniform tiling 532-t012.png Uniform polyhedron-63-t012.png Truncated triheptagonal tiling.svg H2-8-3-omnitruncated.svg H2 tiling 23i-7.png H2 tiling 23j12-7.png H2 tiling 23j9-7.png H2 tiling 23j6-7.png H2 tiling 23j3-7.png
Config. 4.6.4 4.6.6 4.6.8 4.6.10 4.6.12 4.6.14 4.6.16 4.6. 4.6.24i4.6.18i4.6.12i4.6.6i
Duals Spherical hexagonal bipyramid.svg Spherical tetrakis hexahedron.svg Spherical disdyakis dodecahedron.svg Spherical disdyakis triacontahedron.svg Tiling Dual Semiregular V4-6-12 Bisected Hexagonal.svg H2checkers 237.png H2checkers 238.png H2checkers 23i.png H2 checkers 23j12.png H2 checkers 23j9.png H2 checkers 23j6.png H2 checkers 23j3.png
Config. V4.6.4 V4.6.6 V4.6.8 V4.6.10 V4.6.12 V4.6.14 V4.6.16 V4.6.V4.6.24iV4.6.18iV4.6.12iV4.6.6i

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