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Stellated polyhedra – mathematical models

April 29, 2009

Stellated polyhedra – mathematical models

When I was about 12, my dad and I built four stellated polyhedra (star-shaped, many-sided platonic solids). Dad, a mathematician and math teacher, used the book shown below as a resource and then worked out his own dimensions and angles (you can see his notations right in the book).

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