| Metabigyrate rhombicosidodecahedron | |
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| Type | Johnson J73 – J74 – J75 |
| Faces | 4×2+3×4 triangles 2+2×2+6×4 squares 4×2+4 pentagons |
| Edges | 120 |
| Vertices | 60 |
| Vertex configuration | 5.4(3.42.5) 4×2+8×4(3.4.5.4) |
| Symmetry group | C2v |
| Dual polyhedron | - |
| Properties | convex, canonical |
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In geometry, the metabigyrate rhombicosidodecahedron is one of the Johnson solids (J74). It can be constructed as a rhombicosidodecahedron with two non-opposing pentagonal cupolae rotated through 36 degrees. It is also a canonical polyhedron.
A Johnson solid is one of 92 strictly convex polyhedra that are composed of regular polygon faces but are not uniform polyhedra (that is, they are not Platonic solids , Archimedean solids , prisms , or antiprisms ). They were named by Norman Johnson , who first listed these polyhedra in 1966. [1]
Alternative Johnson solids, constructed by rotating different cupolae of a rhombicosidodecahedron, are:
- The gyrate rhombicosidodecahedron (J72) where only one cupola is rotated;
- The parabigyrate rhombicosidodecahedron (J73) where two opposing cupolae are rotated;
- And the trigyrate rhombicosidodecahedron (J75) where three cupolae are rotated.
