Great dirhombicosidodecahedron
| Great dirhombicosidodecahedron | |
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| Type | Uniform star polyhedron |
| Elements | F = 124, E = 240 V = 60 (χ = −56) |
| Faces by sides | 40{3}+60{4}+24{5/2} |
| Wythoff symbol | | 3/2 5/3 3 5/2 |
| Symmetry group | Ih, [5,3], *532 |
| Index references | U75, C92, W119 |
| Dual polyhedron | Great dirhombicosidodecacron |
| Vertex figure |  4.5/3.4.3.4.5/2.4.3/2 |
| Bowers acronym | Gidrid |
File:Great dirhombicosidodecahedron.stl
In geometry, the great dirhombicosidodecahedron (or great snub disicosidisdodecahedron) is a nonconvex uniform polyhedron, indexed last as U75. It has 124 faces (40 triangles, 60 squares, and 24 pentagrams), 240 edges, and 60 vertices.[1]
This is the only non-degenerate uniform polyhedron with more than six faces meeting at a vertex. Each vertex has 4 squares which pass through the vertex central axis (and thus through the centre of the figure), alternating with two triangles and two pentagrams. Another unusual feature is that the faces all occur in coplanar pairs.
This is also the only uniform polyhedron that cannot be made by the Wythoff construction from a spherical triangle. It has a special Wythoff symbol | 3⁄2 5⁄3 3 5⁄2, relating it to a spherical quadrilateral. This symbol suggests that it is a sort of snub polyhedron, except that instead of the non-snub faces being surrounded by snub triangles as in most snub polyhedra, they are surrounded by snub squares.
It has been nicknamed "Miller's monster" (after J. C. P. Miller, who with H. S. M. Coxeter and M. S. Longuet-Higgins enumerated the uniform polyhedra in 1954).
Related polyhedra
If the definition of a uniform polyhedron is relaxed to allow any even number of faces adjacent to an edge, then this definition gives rise to one further polyhedron: the great disnub dirhombidodecahedron which has the same vertices and edges but with a different arrangement of triangular faces.
The vertices and edges are also shared with the uniform compounds of 20 octahedra or 20 tetrahemihexahedra. 180 of the 240 edges are shared with the great snub dodecicosidodecahedron.
 Convex hull |
 Great snub dodecicosidodecahedron |
Great dirhombicosidodecahedron |
 Great disnub dirhombidodecahedron |
 Compound of twenty octahedra |
 Compound of twenty tetrahemihexahedra |
This polyhedron is related to the nonconvex great rhombicosidodecahedron (quasirhombicosidodecahedron) by a branched cover: there is a function from the great dirhombicosidodecahedron to the quasirhombicosidodecahedron that is 2-to-1 everywhere, except for the vertices.[2]
Cartesian coordinates
Cartesian coordinates for the vertices of a great dirhombicosidodecahedron are all the even permutations of [math]\displaystyle{ \begin{array}{crrrc} \Bigl(& 0\ ,& \pm \frac{2}{\varphi}\ ,& \pm \frac{2}{\sqrt{\varphi}} &\Bigr),\\ \Bigl(& \pm \left[-1+\frac{1}{\varphi^{3/2}}\right],& \pm \left[\frac{1}{\varphi^2}-\frac{1}{\sqrt{\varphi}}\right],& \pm \left[\frac{1}{\varphi}+\sqrt{\varphi}\right] &\Bigr), \\ \Bigl(& \pm \left[-\frac{1}{\varphi}+\sqrt{\varphi}\right],& \pm \left[-1-\frac{1}{\varphi^{3/2}}\right],& \pm \left[\frac{1}{\varphi^2}+\frac{1}{\sqrt{\varphi}}\right] &\Bigr), \end{array} }[/math]
where [math]\displaystyle{ \varphi = \tfrac{1+ \sqrt 5}{2} }[/math] is the golden ratio. These vertices result in an edge length of [math]\displaystyle{ 2\sqrt 2. }[/math]
Gallery
Traditional filling |
 Modulo-2 filling |
 Interior view, modulo-2 filling |
References
- Coxeter, Harold Scott MacDonald; Longuet-Higgins, M. S.; Miller, J. C. P. (1954), "Uniform polyhedra", Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series A. Mathematical and Physical Sciences 246 (916): 401–450, doi:10.1098/rsta.1954.0003, ISSN 0080-4614, Bibcode: 1954RSPTA.246..401C
- Wenninger, Magnus (1974). Polyhedron Models. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-09859-9. OCLC 1738087.
- Har'El, Z. Uniform Solution for Uniform Polyhedra., Geometriae Dedicata 47, 57-110, 1993. Zvi Har’El, Kaleido software, Images, dual images
- Mäder, R. E. Uniform Polyhedra. Mathematica J. 3, 48-57, 1993.
- Klitzing, Richard. "3D uniform polyhedra". https://bendwavy.org/klitzing/dimensions/polyhedra-neu.htm.
External links
- Weisstein, Eric W.. "Great dirhombicosidodecahedron". http://mathworld.wolfram.com/GreatDirhombicosidodecahedron.html.
- http://www.mathconsult.ch/showroom/unipoly/75.html
- http://www.software3d.com/MillersMonster.php
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