Nonconvex Great Rhombicosidodecahedron
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geometry Geometry (; ) is a branch of mathematics concerned with properties of space such as the distance, shape, size, and relative position of figures. Geometry is, along with arithmetic, one of the oldest branches of mathematics. A mathematician w ...
, the nonconvex great rhombicosidodecahedron is a
nonconvex uniform polyhedron In geometry, a uniform star polyhedron is a self-intersecting uniform polyhedron. They are also sometimes called nonconvex polyhedra to imply self-intersecting. Each polyhedron can contain either star polygon faces, star polygon vertex figures, ...
, indexed as U67. It has 62 faces (20
triangle A triangle is a polygon with three corners and three sides, one of the basic shapes in geometry. The corners, also called ''vertices'', are zero-dimensional points while the sides connecting them, also called ''edges'', are one-dimension ...
s, 30
square In geometry, a square is a regular polygon, regular quadrilateral. It has four straight sides of equal length and four equal angles. Squares are special cases of rectangles, which have four equal angles, and of rhombuses, which have four equal si ...
s and 12
pentagram A pentagram (sometimes known as a pentalpha, pentangle, or star pentagon) is a regular five-pointed star polygon, formed from the diagonal line segments of a convex (or simple, or non-self-intersecting) regular pentagon. Drawing a circle around ...
s), 120 edges, and 60 vertices. It is also called the quasirhombicosidodecahedron. It is given a
Schläfli symbol In geometry, the Schläfli symbol is a notation of the form \ that defines List of regular polytopes and compounds, regular polytopes and tessellations. The Schläfli symbol is named after the 19th-century Swiss mathematician Ludwig Schläfli, wh ...
Its
vertex figure In geometry, a vertex figure, broadly speaking, is the figure exposed when a corner of a general -polytope is sliced off. Definitions Take some corner or Vertex (geometry), vertex of a polyhedron. Mark a point somewhere along each connected ed ...
is a
crossed quadrilateral In geometry a quadrilateral is a four-sided polygon, having four edges (sides) and four corners (vertices). The word is derived from the Latin words ''quadri'', a variant of four, and ''latus'', meaning "side". It is also called a tetragon, ...
. This model shares the name with the convex ''great rhombicosidodecahedron'', also known as the
truncated icosidodecahedron In geometry, a truncated icosidodecahedron, rhombitruncated icosidodecahedron,Wenninger Model Number 16 great rhombicosidodecahedron,Williams (Section 3-9, p. 94)Cromwell (p. 82) omnitruncated dodecahedron or omnitruncated icosahedronNorman Wooda ...
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Cartesian coordinates

Cartesian coordinates In geometry, a Cartesian coordinate system (, ) in a plane is a coordinate system that specifies each point uniquely by a pair of real numbers called ''coordinates'', which are the signed distances to the point from two fixed perpendicular o ...
for the vertices of a nonconvex great rhombicosidodecahedron are all the even permutations of \begin \Bigl(& \pm\,\frac,& 0,& \pm \bigl -\frac\bigr&\Bigr) \\ \Bigl(& \pm\,1,& \pm\,\frac,& \pm\,1 &\Bigr) \\ \Bigl(& \pm\,\frac,& \pm\,\frac,& \pm\,\frac &\Bigr) \end where \varphi = \tfrac is the
golden ratio In mathematics, two quantities are in the golden ratio if their ratio is the same as the ratio of their summation, sum to the larger of the two quantities. Expressed algebraically, for quantities and with , is in a golden ratio to if \fr ...
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Related polyhedra

It shares its
vertex arrangement In geometry, a vertex arrangement is a set of points in space described by their relative positions. They can be described by their use in polytopes. For example, a ''square vertex arrangement'' is understood to mean four points in a plane, equa ...
with the
truncated great dodecahedron In geometry, the truncated great dodecahedron is a nonconvex uniform polyhedron, indexed as U37. It has 24 faces (12 Pentagram, pentagrams and 12 Decagon, decagons), 90 edges, and 60 vertices. It is given a Schläfli symbol t. Related polyhedra ...
, and with the uniform compounds of 6 or 12 pentagonal prisms. It additionally shares its
edge arrangement In geometry, a vertex arrangement is a set of points in space described by their relative positions. They can be described by their use in polytopes. For example, a ''square vertex arrangement'' is understood to mean four points in a plane, equa ...
with the
great dodecicosidodecahedron In geometry, the great dodecicosidodecahedron (or great dodekicosidodecahedron) is a nonconvex uniform polyhedron, indexed as U61. It has 44 faces (20 triangles, 12 pentagrams and 12 decagrams), 120 edges and 60 vertices. Related polyhedra I ...
(having the triangular and pentagrammic faces in common), and the
great rhombidodecahedron In geometry, the great rhombidodecahedron is a nonconvex uniform polyhedron, indexed as U73. It has 42 faces (30 squares, 12 decagrams), 120 edges and 60 vertices. Its vertex figure is a crossed quadrilateral. Related polyhedra It shares its ...
(having the square faces in common).


Great deltoidal hexecontahedron

The great deltoidal hexecontahedron is a nonconvex
isohedral In geometry, a tessellation of dimension (a plane tiling) or higher, or a polytope of dimension (a polyhedron) or higher, is isohedral or face-transitive if all its faces are the same. More specifically, all faces must be not merely congruen ...
polyhedron In geometry, a polyhedron (: polyhedra or polyhedrons; ) is a three-dimensional figure with flat polygonal Face (geometry), faces, straight Edge (geometry), edges and sharp corners or Vertex (geometry), vertices. The term "polyhedron" may refer ...
. It is the
dual Dual or Duals may refer to: Paired/two things * Dual (mathematics), a notion of paired concepts that mirror one another ** Dual (category theory), a formalization of mathematical duality *** see more cases in :Duality theories * Dual number, a nu ...
of the nonconvex great rhombicosidodecahedron. It is visually identical to the great rhombidodecacron. It has 60 intersecting cross quadrilateral faces, 120 edges, and 62 vertices. It is also called a ''great strombic hexecontahedron.''


See also

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List of uniform polyhedra In geometry, a uniform polyhedron is a polyhedron which has regular polygons as faces and is vertex-transitive ( transitive on its vertices, isogonal, i.e. there is an isometry mapping any vertex onto any other). It follows that all vertices are ...


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