Tridiminished icosahedron

In geometry, the tridiminished icosahedron is one of the Johnson solids (J63).

Tridiminished icosahedron
TypeJohnson
J62 - J63 - J64
Faces2+3 triangles
3 pentagons
Edges15
Vertices9
Vertex configuration2x3(3.52)
3(33.5)
Symmetry groupC3v
Dual polyhedronDual of tridiminished icosahedron (unnamed enneahedron)
Propertiesconvex
Net

A Johnson solid is one of 92 strictly convex polyhedra that is composed of regular polygon faces but are not uniform polyhedra (that is, they are not Platonic solids, Archimedean solids, prisms, or antiprisms). They were named by Norman Johnson, who first listed these polyhedra in 1966.[1]

The name refers to one way of constructing it, by removing three pentagonal pyramids from a regular icosahedron, which replaces three sets of five triangular faces from the icosahedron with three mutually adjacent pentagonal faces.

The tridiminished icosahedron is the vertex figure of the snub 24-cell, a uniform 4-polytope (4-dimensional polytope).

See also

  1. Johnson, Norman W. (1966), "Convex polyhedra with regular faces", Canadian Journal of Mathematics, 18: 169–200, doi:10.4153/cjm-1966-021-8, MR 0185507, Zbl 0132.14603.
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