Triakis icosahedron

In geometry, the triakis icosahedron is an Archimedean dual solid, or a Catalan solid, with 60 isosceles triangle faces. Its dual is the truncated dodecahedron. It has also been called the kisicosahedron. It was first depicted, in a non-convex form with equilateral triangle faces, by Leonardo da Vinci in Luca Pacioli's Divina proportione, where it was named the icosahedron elevatum. The capsid of the Hepatitis A virus has the shape of a triakis icosahedron.

Triakis icosahedron

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TypeCatalan solid
Coxeter diagram
Conway notationkI
Face typeV3.10.10
isosceles triangle
Faces60
Edges90
Vertices32
Vertices by type20{3}+12{10}
Symmetry groupIh, H3, [5,3], (*532)
Rotation groupI, [5,3]+, (532)
Dihedral angle160°36′45″
arccos(−24 + 15√5/61)
Propertiesconvex, face-transitive

Truncated dodecahedron
(dual polyhedron)

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