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
Rhombicuboctahedron 4
The Zometool
I used the Zometool⩘ to create a model of this shape, which was originally described by Archimedes.
In fact, although this Archimedean solid presented me with an interesting challenge as a woodworker, it is a pretty mundane shape in the Zometool universe (although requiring special blue-green struts that are not a part of their standard kits).
The Zometool can be used to build tetrahedra (65 different shapes), golden rectangle spirals, fractal shapes, various polyhedra, as well as many architectural shapes such as pyramids and domes.
Additional resources
Two of the best polyhedra-related sites I've come across:
- George Hart's site (www.georgehart.com⩘ ) contains pictures of his polyhedra-based sculptures, as well as a wealth of polyhedra information and illustrations.
- Fr. Magnus Wenninger at St. John's Abbey in Minnesota has been making polyhedra models for 40 years: (Wikipedia biography⩘ ).