Great stellated dodecahedron


In geometry, the great stellated dodecahedron is a Kepler–Poinsot polyhedron, with Schläfli symbol,3

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Transparent great stellated dodecahedron

This polyhedron can be made as spherical tiling with a density of 7.
NetStellation facets

A net of a great stellated dodecahedron ; twenty isosceles triangular pyramids, arranged like the faces of an icosahedron.

It can be constructed as the third of three stellations of the dodecahedron, and referenced as List of Wenninger polyhedron models#Stellations of dodecahedron|Wenninger model .

Complete net of the surface geometry of a great stellated dodecahedron. Making a net with the actual pentagrams that make up the polyhedron would self intersect even if layed out flat.
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Formulas

For a great stellated dodecahedron with edge length E,

Related polyhedra

A truncation process applied to the great stellated dodecahedron produces a series of uniform polyhedra. Truncating edges down to points produces the great icosidodecahedron as a rectified great stellated dodecahedron. The process completes as a birectification, reducing the original faces down to points, and producing the great icosahedron.
The truncated great stellated dodecahedron is a degenerate polyhedron, with 20 triangular faces from the truncated vertices, and 12 pentagonal faces as truncations of the original pentagram faces, the latter forming a great dodecahedron inscribed within and sharing the edges of the icosahedron.
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stellated
dodecahedron
Truncated great stellated dodecahedronGreat
icosidodecahedron
Truncated
great
icosahedron
Great
icosahedron
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