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Hello, I found this toy and am curious what geometric form it is called. It is essentially 6 5-pointed stars interwoven. At first I thought it was a dodecahedron, but after closer inspection it seems to have some triangle shapes in it as well.

is it possibly a variation of an Icosidodecahedron?

eligius1427 wrote: ↑

Sun Oct 17, 2021 10:15 pm

Hello, I found this toy and am curious what geometric form it is called. It is essentially 6 5-pointed stars interwoven. At first I thought it was a dodecahedron, but after closer inspection it seems to have some triangle shapes in it as well.

Yeah I've seen these before. It's not really a polyhedron itself, but it's close to a few.

Just looking at it, it's most reminiscent of the compound of 5 tetrahedra: https://www.software3d.com/5Tet.php


But this one is really a compound of 6 pentagonal or pentagrammatic prisms. Stella has both of these in its library too, but they look different at first because the prisms have square sides, making them much thicker than the pieces in your toy.

Compound of 6 pentagonal prisms:


Squashing each one down to 0.15 of its original height looks a bit more like it:


Compound of 6 pentagrammatic prisms:


And after squashing each one down to 0.0618 of their original heights (I went for roughly the golden ratio).


The pieces in the toy are somewhere between pentagons and pentagrams, so you could make something intermediate to get closer.

Thank you!

That's OK. I forgot to mention another model I made that probably looks even more like it. A stellation of the small stellated truncated dodecahedron.
https://www.software3d.com/StelSSTD.php

I tried to make something like that from 6 „pentagrammic rings“



Ulrich

Ulrich wrote: ↑

Tue Oct 19, 2021 9:13 am

I tried to make something like that from 6 „pentagrammic rings“

Nice job

Ulrich wrote: ↑

Tue Oct 19, 2021 9:13 am

I tried to make something like that from 6 „pentagrammic rings“



Ulrich

That looks very much like the toy!