This is my new favorite shape, the Stellation of Strombic Hexecontahedron, as generated in Stella4D. I designed the connectors using Fusion360 and 3D Printed the parts on a Lulzbot Taz Pro using black PLA. The faces are Rowmark Colorshop plywood laser cut on Glowforge Pro. The screws are button head #6-32 1/2″ which were purchased from the boltdepot.com.
The complexity of this shape isn’t as crazy as it looks, as every face is the exact same shape. I’ve just started dabbling in creating polyhedrals that have stellations, meaning that some of the connectors need to be concave versus the normal due to the shape having more peaks. Using Stella4D has made my life easier when designing these shapes, as I just needed adjust the edge length, and it provides the face angles as well as the dihedral angles between faces. I use this information when designing the connectors in Fusion360. The design of these connectors allows for the shape to scale bigger if necessary, as the screw holes are fixed length from each apex.
Fun Fact: Every polyhedron has a dual or the model’s opposite. It has the number of faces and vertices swapped with respect to the original model, and the same number of edges. The Stellated Strombic Hexecontahedron is the dual to the Trapezoidal Hexecontahedron, a.k.a. Deltoidal Hexecontahedron, a.k.a. Lancoeolar Hexecontahedron.
You can purchase the STL files here and 3D Print the connectors on your 3D printer. The digital download has the STL files as well as the SVG file for your laser printer.
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