Stellation of Small Stellated Truncated Dodecahedron

This is a very beautiful model, and has probably never been seen or made before, until now. The model somehow looks both very complicated and very simple at the same time. All the faces have 5-fold rotational symmetry, being parallel to the faces of the dodecahedron.

For Great Stella users, this model can be found in the Stellations section of the supplied polyhedron library as Stellation of Small Stellated Truncated Dodecahedron.

	The model is a stellation of the small stellated truncated dodecahedron, pictured here, which should probably really be called the truncated small stellated dodecahedron.
	This shows one of the two types of faces, from the pentagon plane of the small stellated truncated dodecahedron. The dark areas show where the rest of the solid intersects with this plane.
	This shows the other type of face, from the decagram plane of the small stellated truncated dodecahedron.
	The view down a 5-fold rotational symmetry axes.
	The view down a 3-fold rotational symmetry axes.
	The view down a 2-fold rotational symmetry axes.
	I started by just putting the nets from Great Stella together, but at about the half way mark, you need to start thinking about how you're going to "put the last piece in".
	I decided to make two halves and glue them together last. Here is one part (it's a bit more than half). I left some of the rhombi complete, rather than cutting the inner slice out of them. This is where the other half will be glued on.
	To reinforce the surfaces where the two parts will be glued, I made these small extra polygons using Great Stella's "Selection>Mouse Selection Mode>Create Facets" mode.
	Here is the other part, with the extra polygons glued in place. This part also has complete rhombi where the other part will be attached. Connecting parts are covered in glue and then you hope for the best and put them together!

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