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Raz#

Pentakis Dodecahedron

The pentakis dodecahedron is the 60-faced dual polyhedron of the truncated icosahedron (Holden 1971, p. 55). It can be constructed by augmentation of a unit edge-length dodecahedron by a pyramid with height 1/(19)sqrt(1/5(65+22sqrt(5))). It is illustrated above together with a wireframe version and a net that can be used for its construction. It is Wenninger dual W_9. A tetrahedron 10-compound, cube 5-compound, icosahedron, and dodecahedron can be inscribed in the vertices of the pentakis...


Lookie, isn't it cool. Spent most of friday night working on the scopes. First i made the simple (ha) dodecahedron, 12 hexagons and then made 5 separate scopes extending from each to make the 5 triagles. Also i extended the triangles a little further out because it just looks that much cooler.

And now to make a preset out of it...
dirkdeftly#
okay, i give up. this is the third time something like this has happened in a week. just three nights ago i was playing with some construction toys cos i had nothing else to do and i made that - i thought to myself, 'damn this would look cool in avs.' fuck it 😔
jheriko#
Mathworld be damned for further spreading non-standard terminology. If Mathematica wasn't such a good tool I'd complain to someone. The standard name for this shape is a stellated dodecahedron... even the Mathematica help files refer to the process of stellation and stellated polyhedra.

Seriously though, its always nice to see a polyhedron preset... see if you can make it so that only the front faces draw. Then I'd be really impressed.
Pixelcraft#
I made a remix. It's not beat reactive🙁, but I thought it looked pretty cool.🙂
Raz#
Nice preset there pixelcraft, it would be good for a particle preset but it really takes away the point of the preset. Nice work though. 👍

Ok i made some serious beat reaction now, take a little looksie. Now all that's left to do is make it look pretty. 😁