List of polyhedral stellations

Last updated

In the geometry of three dimensions, a stellation extends a polyhedron to form a new figure that is also a polyhedron. The following is a list of stellations of various polyhedra. h

Contents

ImageNameStellation of
Great dodecahedron.png Great dodecahedron Dodecahedron
Great icosahedron.png Great icosahedron Icosahedron
Small stellated dodecahedron.png Small stellated dodecahedron Dodecahedron
Great stellated dodecahedron.png Great stellated dodecahedron Dodecahedron
Stella octangula.svg Stellated octahedron Octahedron
First compound stellation of icosahedron.png Compound of five octahedra Icosahedron
Second compound stellation of icosahedron.png Compound of five tetrahedra Icosahedron
First stellation of icosahedron.png Small triambic icosahedron Icosahedron
Stellation icosahedron De2f2.png Great triambic icosahedron Icosahedron
Compound of five cubes.png Compound of five cubes Rhombic triacontahedron
Second compound stellation of icosidecahedron.png Compound of great icosahedron and great stellated dodecahedron Icosidodecahedron
Compound of great icosahedron and stellated dodecahedron.png Compound of great icosahedron and great stellated dodecahedron Great icosidodecahedron
Compound of dodecahedron and icosahedron.png Compound of dodecahedron and icosahedron Icosidodecahedron
Compound of cube and octahedron.png Compound of cube and octahedron Cuboctahedron
Second stellation of cuboctahedron.png Second stellation of the cuboctahedron [1] Cuboctahedron
Complete icosahedron ortho stella.png Final stellation of the icosahedron Icosahedron
Compound of ten tetrahedra.png Compound of ten tetrahedra Icosahedron
Eighth stellation of icosahedron.png Eighth stellation of the icosahedron Icosahedron

See also

Footnotes

  1. Wenninger, p. 69, 44 Second stellation of the cuboctahedron

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Kepler–Poinsot polyhedron</span> Any of 4 regular star polyhedra

In geometry, a Kepler–Poinsot polyhedron is any of four regular star polyhedra.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Stellation</span> Extending the elements of a polytope to form a new figure

In geometry, stellation is the process of extending a polygon in two dimensions, a polyhedron in three dimensions, or, in general, a polytope in n dimensions to form a new figure. Starting with an original figure, the process extends specific elements such as its edges or face planes, usually in a symmetrical way, until they meet each other again to form the closed boundary of a new figure. The new figure is a stellation of the original. The word stellation comes from the Latin stellātus, "starred", which in turn comes from the Latin stella, "star". Stellation is the reciprocal or dual process to faceting.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Tetrahemihexahedron</span> Polyhedron with 7 faces

In geometry, the tetrahemihexahedron or hemicuboctahedron is a uniform star polyhedron, indexed as U4. It has 7 faces (4 triangles and 3 squares), 12 edges, and 6 vertices. Its vertex figure is a crossed quadrilateral. Its Coxeter–Dynkin diagram is (although this is a double covering of the tetrahemihexahedron).

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Final stellation of the icosahedron</span> Outermost stellation of the icosahedron

In geometry, the complete or final stellation of the icosahedron is the outermost stellation of the icosahedron, and is "complete" and "final" because it includes all of the cells in the icosahedron's stellation diagram. That is, every three intersecting face planes of the icosahedral core intersect either on a vertex of this polyhedron or inside of it. It was studied by Max Brückner after the discovery of Kepler–Poinsot polyhedron. It can be viewed as an irregular, simple, and star polyhedron.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Great icosahedron</span> Kepler-Poinsot polyhedron with 20 faces

In geometry, the great icosahedron is one of four Kepler–Poinsot polyhedra, with Schläfli symbol {3,52} and Coxeter-Dynkin diagram of . It is composed of 20 intersecting triangular faces, having five triangles meeting at each vertex in a pentagrammic sequence.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Compound of five tetrahedra</span> Compound polyhedron

The compound of five tetrahedra is one of the five regular polyhedral compounds. This compound polyhedron is also a stellation of the regular icosahedron. It was first described by Edmund Hess in 1876.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Octahemioctahedron</span> Uniform star polyhedron with 12 faces

In geometry, the octahemioctahedron or allelotetratetrahedron is a nonconvex uniform polyhedron, indexed as U3. It has 12 faces (8 triangles and 4 hexagons), 24 edges and 12 vertices. Its vertex figure is a crossed quadrilateral.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Great dodecahemicosahedron</span> Polyhedron with 22 faces

In geometry, the great dodecahemicosahedron (or great dodecahemiicosahedron) is a nonconvex uniform polyhedron, indexed as U65. It has 22 faces (12 pentagons and 10 hexagons), 60 edges, and 30 vertices. Its vertex figure is a crossed quadrilateral.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Compound of ten tetrahedra</span> Polyhedral compound

The compound of ten tetrahedra is one of the five regular polyhedral compounds. This polyhedron can be seen as either a stellation of the icosahedron or a compound. This compound was first described by Edmund Hess in 1876.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Compound of five octahedra</span> Polyhedral compound

The compound of five octahedra is one of the five regular polyhedron compounds, and can also be seen as a stellation. It was first described by Edmund Hess in 1876. It is unique among the regular compounds for not having a regular convex hull.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Compound of great icosahedron and great stellated dodecahedron</span>

There are two different compounds of great icosahedron and great stellated dodecahedron: one is a dual compound and a stellation of the great icosidodecahedron, the other is a stellation of the icosidodecahedron.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Magnus Wenninger</span> American mathematician (1919–2017)

Father Magnus J. Wenninger OSB was an American mathematician who worked on constructing polyhedron models, and wrote the first book on their construction.

<i>The Fifty-Nine Icosahedra</i> Book by H.S.M. Coxeter and colleagues on the stellations of the regular icosahedron

The Fifty-Nine Icosahedra is a book written and illustrated by H. S. M. Coxeter, P. Du Val, H. T. Flather and J. F. Petrie. It enumerates certain stellations of the regular convex or Platonic icosahedron, according to a set of rules put forward by J. C. P. Miller.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Small triambic icosahedron</span>

In geometry, the small triambic icosahedron is a star polyhedron composed of 20 intersecting non-regular hexagon faces. It has 60 edges and 32 vertices, and Euler characteristic of −8. It is an isohedron, meaning that all of its faces are symmetric to each other. Branko Grünbaum has conjectured that it is the only Euclidean isohedron with convex faces of six or more sides, but the small hexagonal hexecontahedron is another example.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Stellation diagram</span>

In geometry, a stellation diagram or stellation pattern is a two-dimensional diagram in the plane of some face of a polyhedron, showing lines where other face planes intersect with this one. The lines cause 2D space to be divided up into regions. Regions not intersected by any further lines are called elementary regions. Usually unbounded regions are excluded from the diagram, along with any portions of the lines extending to infinity. Each elementary region represents a top face of one cell, and a bottom face of another.

In geometry, a hemipolyhedron is a uniform star polyhedron some of whose faces pass through its center. These "hemi" faces lie parallel to the faces of some other symmetrical polyhedron, and their count is half the number of faces of that other polyhedron – hence the "hemi" prefix.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Small dodecahemicosacron</span> Polyhedron with 30 faces

In geometry, the small dodecahemicosacron is the dual of the small dodecahemicosahedron, and is one of nine dual hemipolyhedra. It appears visually indistinct from the great dodecahemicosacron.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Great dodecahemidodecacron</span> Polyhedron with 30 faces

In geometry, the great dodecahemidodecacron is the dual of the great dodecahemidodecahedron, and is one of nine dual hemipolyhedra. It appears indistinct from the great icosihemidodecacron.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Icosahedron</span> Polyhedron with 20 faces

In geometry, an icosahedron is a polyhedron with 20 faces. The name comes from Ancient Greek εἴκοσι (eíkosi) 'twenty' and ἕδρα (hédra) 'seat'. The plural can be either "icosahedra" or "icosahedrons".

References