Rabbit holes

Da Vinci
Divine proportion
Dodecahedron
Dymaxion
Euclid
Golden mean
Hexagon
Icosahedron
Icosidodecahedron
Making a lamp
Motivation
Octagon
Pentagon
Pacioli
Paper
Plato
Rhombicosido-
  decahedron
Rhombicub-
  octahedron
Symmetry
Truncation
Wood
Zometool
 

The icosahedron – 8

Recommended reading

Keith Critchlow, Order in Space. Thames and Hudson, London, 2000 (1969).

Peter R. Cromwell, Polyhedra. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1997.

Peter and Susan Pearce, Polyhedra Primer. Van Nostrand Rheinhold, New York, 1978.

Magnus J. Wenninger, Polyhedron Models. Cambridge University Press, London, 1970.

Note: I used the Zometool⩘  to make a model of the icosahedron with the interior golden rectangles and the embedded truncation. I then took photos of the model and traced them in Adobe Illustrator to make all of the illustrations on the previous pages of this rabbit hole journey.