Small hexagrammic hexecontahedron

{{Short description|Polyhedron with 60 faces}}

{{Uniform polyhedra db|Uniform dual polyhedron stat table|Sirsid}}

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In geometry, the small hexagrammic hexecontahedron is a nonconvex isohedral polyhedron. It is the dual of the small retrosnub icosicosidodecahedron. It is partially degenerate, having coincident vertices, as its dual has coplanar triangular faces.

Geometry

Its faces are hexagonal stars with two short and four long edges. Denoting the golden ratio by \phi and putting \xi = \frac{1}{4}+\frac{1}{4}\sqrt{1+4\phi}\approx 0.933\,380\,199\,59, the stars have five equal angles of \arccos(\xi)\approx 21.031\,988\,967\,51^{\circ} and one of 360^{\circ}-\arccos(\phi^{-2}\xi-\phi^{-1})\approx 254.840\,055\,162\,43^{\circ}. Each face has four long and two short edges. The ratio between the edge lengths is

:1/2 -1/2\times\sqrt{(1-\xi)/(\phi^{3}-\xi)}\approx 0.428\,986\,992\,12.

The dihedral angle equals \arccos(\xi/(1+\xi))\approx 61.133\,452\,273\,64^{\circ}. Part of each face is inside the solid, hence is not visible in solid models.

References

  • {{Citation | last1=Wenninger | first1=Magnus | author1-link=Magnus Wenninger | title=Dual Models | publisher=Cambridge University Press | isbn=978-0-521-54325-5 |mr=730208 | year=1983}}