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golden rhombi; 3, 4, or 5 faces meet at each vertex. It has 5 faces (green on top figure) meeting at each of its 2 poles; these 2 vertices lie on its axis of 5-fold symmetry, which is perpendicular to 5 axes of 2-fold symmetry through the midpoints of opposite equatorial edges (example on top figure:
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The orthogonal projection of the (vertical) belt of 10 middle faces of the rhombic triacontahedron is just the (horizontal) exterior regular decagon of the common orthogonal projection.
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most left-hand and most right-hand mid-edges). Its other 10 faces follow its equator, 5 above and 5 below it; each of these 10 rhombi has 2 of its 4 sides lying on this zig-zag
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to 3 dimensions. The 32 vertices of a 5-cube map into the 22 exterior vertices of the rhombic icosahedron, with the remaining 10 interior vertices forming a
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The edges of the rhombic icosahedron can be grouped in 5 parallel-sets, seen in this wireframe orthogonal projection.
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The rhombic icosahedron and the rhombic triacontahedron have the same 10-fold symmetric orthogonal projection. (*)
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Removal of a further belt of 8 faces with parallel edges from the icosahedron results in the
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The rhombic icosahedron forms the convex hull of the vertex-first projection of a
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Even though all its faces are congruent, the rhombic icosahedron is not
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The rhombic icosahedron has 5 sets of 8 parallel edges, described as 8
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by removing a belt of 10 middle faces with parallel edges.
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equator. The rhombic icosahedron has 22 vertices. It has
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Index

Rhombicosahedron

Zonohedron
Faces
golden rhombi
Edges
Vertices
Symmetry group
convex

polyhedron
oblate
sphere
congruent
skew decagon
D5d
face-transitive
zonohedron
belts

5-cube
pentagonal antiprism
Rhombic dodecahedron
4-cube
rhombic triacontahedron
6-cube
rhombic triacontahedron

rhombic triacontahedron

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