In geometry, the great rhombic triacontahedron is a nonconvex isohedral, isotoxal polyhedron. It is the dual of the great icosidodecahedron (U54). Like the convex rhombic triacontahedron it has 30 rhombic faces, 60 edges and 32 vertices (also 20 on 3-fold and 12 on 5-fold axes).
It can be constructed from the convex solid by expanding the faces by factor of
\varphi3 ≈ 4.236
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This solid is to the compound of great icosahedron and great stellated dodecahedron what the convex one is to the compound of dodecahedron and icosahedron:The crossing edges in the dual compound are the diagonals of the rhombs.
What resembles an "excavated" rhombic triacontahedron (compare excavated dodecahedron and excavated icosahedron) can be seen within the middle of this compound. The rest of the polyhedron strikingly resembles a rhombic hexecontahedron.
The rhombs have two angles of
| \arccos( | 1 |
| 5 |
\sqrt{5}) ≈ 63.43494882292\circ
| \arccos(- | 1 |
| 5 |
\sqrt{5}) ≈ 116.56505117708\circ
| \arccos(- | 1 | + |
| 4 |
| 1 | |
| 4 |
\sqrt{5})=72\circ
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