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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Type | Catalan solid |
Coxeter diagram | |
Conway notation | kI |
Face type | V3.10.10 isosceles triangle |
Faces | 60 |
Edges | 90 |
Vertices | 32 |
Vertices by type | 20{3}+12{10} |
Symmetry group | Ih, H3, [5,3], (*532) |
Rotation group | I, [5,3]+, (532) |
Dihedral angle | 160°36′45″ arccos(−24 + 15√5/61) |
Properties | convex, face-transitive |
Truncated dodecahedron (dual polyhedron) |
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