Related Polyhedra
Its convex hull is the regular convex icosahedron. It also shares its edges with the great icosahedron.
This polyhedron is the truncation of the great dodecahedron:
The truncated small stellated dodecahedron looks like a dodecahedron on the surface, but it has 24 faces: 12 pentagons from the truncated vertices and 12 overlapping (as truncated pentagrams).
| Name | Small stellated dodecahedron | Truncated small stellated dodecahedron | Dodecadodecahedron | Truncated great dodecahedron |
Great dodecahedron |
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