Rectified truncated icosahedron explained

Type:Near-miss Johnson solid
Faces:92:
60 isosceles triangles
12 pentagons
20 hexagons
Edges:180
Vertices:90
Vertex Config:
Conway:[1]
Symmetry: order 120
Rotation Group: order 60
Dual:Rhombic enneacontahedron
Properties:convex
Net:Rectified truncated icosahedron net.png

In geometry, the rectified truncated icosahedron is a convex polyhedron. It has 92 faces: 60 isosceles triangles, 12 regular pentagons, and 20 regular hexagons. It is constructed as a rectified, truncated icosahedron, rectification truncating vertices down to mid-edges.

As a near-miss Johnson solid, under icosahedral symmetry, the pentagons are always regular, although the hexagons, while having equal edge lengths, do not have the same edge lengths with the pentagons, having slightly different but alternating angles, causing the triangles to be isosceles instead. The shape is a symmetrohedron with notation I(1,2,*,[2])

Dual

By Conway polyhedron notation, the dual polyhedron can be called a joined truncated icosahedron, jtI, but it is topologically equivalent to the rhombic enneacontahedron with all rhombic faces.

Related polyhedra

The rectified truncated icosahedron can be seen in sequence of rectification and truncation operations from the truncated icosahedron. Further truncation, and alternation operations creates two more polyhedra:

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: PolyHédronisme.