Solids with icosahedral symmetry
- Solids with icosahedral symmetry
olids with full icosahedral symmetry
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Platonic solids - regular polyhedra (all faces of the same type)
Archimedean solids - polyhedra with more than one polygon face type.
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Catalan solids - duals of the Archimedean solids.
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Platonic solids
Catalan solids:
| Name | picture | Dual Archimedean solid | Faces | Edges | Vertices | Face Polygon |
| pentagonal hexecontahedron | ) | snub dodecahedron | 60 | 150 | 92 | irregular pentagon |
Stellated Archimedean solids:
* the snub dodecadodecahedron
* the great inverted snub icosidodecahedron or great vertisnub icosidodecahedron
* the great retrosnub icosidodecahedron or great inverted retrosnub icosidodecahedron
Chiral nonconvex uniform polyhedra
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