Truncated great icosahedron

Cartesian coordinates for the vertices of a truncated great icosahedron centered at the origin are all the even permutations of

(±1, 0, ±3/τ)

(±2, ±1/τ, ±1/τ³)

(±(1+1/τ²), ±1, ±2/τ)

where τ = (1+√5)/2 is the golden ratio (sometimes written φ). Using 1/τ² = 1 − 1/τ one verifies that all vertices are on a sphere, centered at the origin, with the radius squared equal to 10−9/τ. The edges have length 2.

This polyhedron is the truncation of the great icosahedron:

The truncated great stellated dodecahedron is a degenerate polyhedron, with 20 triangular faces from the truncated vertices, and 12 (hidden) pentagonal faces as truncations of the original pentagram faces, the latter forming a great dodecahedron inscribed within and sharing the edges of the icosahedron.

Name	Great stellated dodecahedron	Truncated great stellated dodecahedron	Great icosidodecahedron	Truncated great icosahedron	Great icosahedron
Coxeter-Dynkin diagram
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Great stellapentakis dodecahedron

Great stellapentakis dodecahedron
Type	Star polyhedron
Face
Elements	F = 60, E = 90 V = 32 (χ = 2)
Symmetry group	Ih, [5,3], *532
Index references	DU55
dual polyhedron	Truncated great icosahedron

3D model of a great stellapentakis dodecahedron

The great stellapentakis dodecahedron is a nonconvex isohedral polyhedron. It is the dual of the truncated great icosahedron. It has 60 intersecting triangular faces.

• List of uniform polyhedra

• Wenninger, Magnus (1983), Dual Models, Cambridge University Press, doi:10.1017/CBO9780511569371, ISBN 978-0-521-54325-5, MR 0730208

• Weisstein, Eric W. "Truncated great icosahedron". MathWorld.
• Weisstein, Eric W. "Great stellapentakis dodecahedron". MathWorld.
• Uniform polyhedra and duals

Animated truncation sequence from {​⁵⁄₂, 3} to {3, ​⁵⁄₂}