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Electronic Geometry Model No. 2000.09.018

Author

Ulrich Reitebuch

Description

The snub dodecahedron is one of the thirteen Archimedean solids.

The snub dodecahedron has 60 vertices, 92 faces and 150 edges. Here the distance from vertex to center point is scaled to 1.

Model produced with: JavaView 2.00.005

Keywords snub dodecahedron; Archimedean solid; polyhedron
MSC-2000 Classification 51M20
Zentralblatt No. 01683022

References

  1. H. S. M. Coxeter: Regular Polytopes, Collier-Macmillan Ltd. London (1963).
  2. Magnus J. Wenniger: Polyhedron Models, Cambridge University Press (1970).
  3. Alan Holden: Shape, Space and Symmetry, Columbia University Press New York/London (1971).
  4. Michael Joswig, Ewgenij Gawrilow: Polymake, http://www.math.tu-berlin.de/diskregeom/polymake/doc/.
  5. Konrad Polthier and Samy Khadem and Eike Preuss and Ulrich Reitebuch: JavaView Home Page, http://www.javaview.de/.

Files

The Mathematica notebook SnubDodecahedron.nb shows a way to compute the 3D data of a snub dodecahedron.

Submission information

Submitted: Fri Sep 1 16:24:12 MET 2000.
Accepted: Thu Oct 25 14:19:08 MDT 2001.

Author's Address

Ulrich Reitebuch
Technische Universität Berlin
Fachbereich Mathematik, MA 8-5
Straße des 17. Juni 136
D-10623 Berlin, Germany
fuli@sfb288.math.tu-berlin.de
http://www-sfb288.math.tu-berlin.de/~fuli/