Rhombidodecadodecahedron
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geometry Geometry (; ) is, with arithmetic, one of the oldest branches of mathematics. It is concerned with properties of space such as the distance, shape, size, and relative position of figures. A mathematician who works in the field of geometry is c ...
, the rhombidodecadodecahedron is a nonconvex uniform polyhedron, indexed as U38. It has 54 faces (30
squares In Euclidean geometry, a square is a regular quadrilateral, which means that it has four equal sides and four equal angles (90-degree angles, π/2 radian angles, or right angles). It can also be defined as a rectangle with two equal-length adj ...
, 12
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and 12 pentagrams), 120 edges and 60 vertices. It is given a
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t0,2, and by the Wythoff construction this polyhedron can also be named a '' cantellated great dodecahedron''.


Cartesian coordinates

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for the vertices of a uniform great rhombicosidodecahedron are all the even permutations of : (±1/τ2, 0, ±τ2) : (±1, ±1, ±) : (±2, ±1/τ, ±τ) where τ = (1+)/2 is the golden ratio (sometimes written φ).


Related polyhedra

It shares its vertex arrangement with the uniform compounds of 10 or 20 triangular prisms. It additionally shares its edges with the icosidodecadodecahedron (having the pentagonal and pentagrammic faces in common) and the
rhombicosahedron In geometry, the rhombicosahedron is a nonconvex uniform polyhedron, indexed as U56. It has 50 faces (30 squares and 20 hexagons), 120 edges and 60 vertices. Its vertex figure is an antiparallelogram. Related polyhedra A rhombicosahedron shar ...
(having the square faces in common).


Medial deltoidal hexecontahedron

The medial deltoidal hexecontahedron (or midly lanceal ditriacontahedron) is a nonconvex isohedral
polyhedron In geometry, a polyhedron (plural polyhedra or polyhedrons; ) is a three-dimensional shape with flat polygonal faces, straight edges and sharp corners or vertices. A convex polyhedron is the convex hull of finitely many points, not all on th ...
. It is the
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of the rhombidodecadodecahedron. It has 60 intersecting quadrilateral faces.


See also

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List of uniform polyhedra In geometry, a uniform polyhedron is a polyhedron which has regular polygons as faces and is vertex-transitive ( transitive on its vertices, isogonal, i.e. there is an isometry mapping any vertex onto any other). It follows that all vertices are c ...


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