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Great dodecahedron

In geometry, the great dodecahedron is a Kepler–Poinsot polyhedron, with Schläfli symbol {5,5/2} and Coxeter–Dynkin diagram of . It is one of four nonconvex regular polyhedra. It is composed of 12 pentagonal faces (six pairs of parallel pentagons), intersecting each other making a pentagrammic path, with five pentagons meeting at each vertex. The discovery of the great dodecahedron is sometimes credited to Louis Poinsot in 1810, though there is a drawing of something very similar to a great dodecahedron in the 1568 book Perspectiva Corporum Regularium by Wenzel Jamnitzer. The great dodecahedron can be constructed analogously to the pentagram, its two-dimensional analogue, via the extension of the (n – 1)-pentagonal polytope faces of the core n-polytope (pentagons for the great dodecahedron, and line segments for the pentagram) until the figure again closes. It shares the same edge arrangement as the convex regular icosahedron; the compound with both is the small complex icosidodecahedron. If only the visible surface is considered, it has the same topology as a triakis icosahedron with concave pyramids rather than convex ones. The excavated dodecahedron can be seen as the same process applied to a regular dodecahedron, although this result is not regular. A truncation process applied to the great dodecahedron produces a series of nonconvex uniform polyhedra. Truncating edges down to points produces the dodecadodecahedron as a rectified great dodecahedron. The process completes as a birectification, reducing the original faces down to points, and producing the small stellated dodecahedron. This shape was the basis for the Rubik's Cube-like Alexander's Star puzzle.

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