ICOSAHEDRON

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The icosahedron is a regular polyhedron with equilateral triangular faces and in which all the vertices receive 5 edges. It is the joining of a regular pentagonal antiprism with two regular pentagonal pyramids. It forms a very stable and interesting dome.

Question How many triangular pyramids could an icosahedron decompose into?
Answer  Solution

 Octahedron & rombododecahedron

Index

Coordinates in a icosahedron


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