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unusual facts about Icosahedron


Icosahedron

The company logo of the TDK Corporation contains a geometric figure which is based on the stellation diagram of the icosahedron.


Complete icosahedron

Final stellation of the icosahedron, also called the "complete stellation of the icosahedron"

Final stellation of the icosahedron

1938: In their 1938 book The Fifty Nine Icosahedra, H. S. M. Coxeter, P. Du Val, H. T. Flather and J. F. Petrie stated a set of stellation rules for the regular icosahedron and gave a systematic enumeration of the fifty-nine stellations which conform to those rules.

Rhombic icosahedron

A rhombic icosahedron (or rhombic icosacontahedron) is a polyhedron shaped like an oblate sphere.


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