Playing with icosahedrons

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Playing with icosahedrons

Postby Eric » Sun Jan 07, 2024 11:45 pm

When you link and stack icosahedrons, it gives interesting, and above all scalable, structures.
Here are 2 rings of 5 icosahedrons.
But it would also work with rings of 6 (to get a 6-pointed star).
And you can stack as many rings as your geomag collection allows.

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Re: Playing with icosahedrons

Postby Eric » Sun Jan 07, 2024 11:47 pm

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Closer view

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Pentagonal pyramids on the outer side of the ring tucked in.

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Pentagonal pyramids on the outer side of the ring tucked in.
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Re: Playing with icosahedrons

Postby Eric » Sun Jan 07, 2024 11:50 pm

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Pentagonal pyramids inside the ring tucked in.

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Pentagonal pyramids inside the ring tucked in.
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Re: Playing with icosahedrons

Postby Eric » Mon Oct 21, 2024 11:57 pm

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