Great disnub dirhombidodecahedron

Great disnub dirhombidodecahedron
File:Great disnub dirhombidodecahedron.png
Type	Uniform star polyhedron
Elements	F = 204, E = 360 V = 60 (χ = −96)
Faces by sides	120{3}+60{4}+24{5/2}
Coxeter diagram	{{{Skilling-Coxeter}}}
Wythoff symbol	(3/2) 5/3 (3) 5/2
Symmetry group	Ih, [5,3], *532
Index references	U-, C-, W-
Dual polyhedron	Great disnub dirhombidodecacron
Vertex figure	File:Great disnub dirhombidodecahedron vertfig.png (5/2.4.3.3.3.4. 5/3.4.3/2.3/2.3/2.4)/2
Bowers acronym	Gidisdrid

File:Great disnub dirhombidodecahedron.stl

3D model of a great disnub dirhombidodecahedron

In geometry, the great disnub dirhombidodecahedron, also called Skilling's figure, is a degenerate uniform star polyhedron.

It was proven in 1970 that there are only 75 uniform polyhedra other than the infinite families of prisms and antiprisms. John Skilling discovered another degenerate example, the great disnub dirhombidodecahedron, by relaxing the condition that edges must be single. More precisely, he allowed any even number of faces to meet at each edge, as long as the set of faces couldn't be separated into two connected sets (Skilling, 1975). Due to its geometric realization having some double edges where 4 faces meet, it is considered a degenerate uniform polyhedron but not strictly a uniform polyhedron.

The number of edges is ambiguous, because the underlying abstract polyhedron has 360 edges, but 120 pairs of these have the same image in the geometric realization, so that the geometric realization has 120 single edges and 120 double edges where 4 faces meet, for a total of 240 edges. The Euler characteristic of the abstract polyhedron is −96. If the pairs of coinciding edges in the geometric realization are considered to be single edges, then it has only 240 edges and Euler characteristic 24.

The vertex figure has 4 square faces passing through the center of the model.

It may be constructed as the exclusive or (blend) of the great dirhombicosidodecahedron and compound of twenty octahedra.

Related polyhedra

It shares the same edge arrangement as the great dirhombicosidodecahedron, but has a different set of triangular faces. The vertices and edges are also shared with the uniform compounds of twenty octahedra or twenty tetrahemihexahedra. 180 of the edges are shared with the great snub dodecicosidodecahedron.

File:Nonuniform2-rhombicosidodecahedron.png Convex hull	File:Great snub dodecicosidodecahedron.png Great snub dodecicosidodecahedron	File:Great dirhombicosidodecahedron.png Great dirhombicosidodecahedron
File:Great disnub dirhombidodecahedron.png Great disnub dirhombidodecahedron	File:UC14-20 octahedra.png Compound of twenty octahedra	File:UC19-20 tetrahemihexahedron.png Compound of twenty tetrahemihexahedra

Dual polyhedron

File:Great dirhombicosidodecacron.png

The great disnub dirhombidodecacron

The dual of the great disnub dirhombidodecahedron is called the great disnub dirhombidodecacron. It is a nonconvex infinite isohedral polyhedron.

Like the visually identical great dirhombicosidodecacron in Magnus Wenninger's Dual Models, it is represented with intersecting infinite prisms passing through the model center, cut off at a certain point that is convenient for the maker. Wenninger suggested these figures are members of a new class of stellation polyhedra, called stellation to infinity. However, he also acknowledged that strictly speaking they are not polyhedra because their construction does not conform to the usual definitions.

Gallery

File:Great disnub dirhombidodecahedron.png Traditional filling

File:Great disnub dirhombidodecahedron 2.png Modulo-2 filling

See also

• List of uniform polyhedra

References

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• http://www.software3d.com/MillersMonster.php

External links

• http://www.orchidpalms.com/polyhedra/uniform/skilling.htm
• http://www.georgehart.com/virtual-polyhedra/great_disnub_dirhombidodecahedron.html