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    In geometry, a KeplerPoinsot polyhedron is any of four regular star polyhedra. They may be obtained by stellating the regular convex dodecahedron and...
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    polyhedrons as in 5 Platonic solids and 13 Archimedean solids—2 quasiregular and 11 semiregular— the non-convex star polyhedra as in 4 KeplerPoinsot...
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    discovered the four Kepler-Poinsot polyhedra in 1809. Two of these had already appeared in Kepler's work of 1619, although Poinsot was unaware of this...
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    faces) and four KeplerPoinsot polyhedrons. Nevertheless, some polyhedrons may not possess one or two of those symmetries: A polyhedron with vertex-transitive...
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  • Goldberg polyhedron Kepler-Poinsot polyhedron List of regular polytopes Prince Rupert's cube Regular polytope Regular skew polyhedron Toroidal polyhedron Gardner...
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    Small stellated dodecahedron (category KeplerPoinsot polyhedra)
    In geometry, the small stellated dodecahedron is a KeplerPoinsot polyhedron, named by Arthur Cayley, and with Schläfli symbol {⁠5/2⁠,5}. It is one of...
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    on a vertex of this polyhedron or inside of it. It was studied by Max Brückner after the discovery of KeplerPoinsot polyhedron. It can be viewed as...
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  • polyhedra (the Platonic solids), and four regular star polyhedra (the KeplerPoinsot polyhedra), making nine regular polyhedra in all. In addition, there...
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    Great dodecahedron (category KeplerPoinsot polyhedra)
    In geometry, the great dodecahedron is one of four KeplerPoinsot polyhedra. It is composed of 12 pentagonal faces (six pairs of parallel pentagons), intersecting...
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    as KeplerPoinsot polyhedra. Kepler may have also found another solid known as elongated square gyrobicupola or pseudorhombicuboctahedron. Kepler once...
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    Regular icosahedron (category Composite polyhedron)
    of regular icosahedron, which consists of 59 polyhedrons. The great dodecahedron, one of the KeplerPoinsot polyhedra, is constructed by either stellation...
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    solids and (star) KeplerPoinsot polyhedra – form dual pairs, where the regular tetrahedron is self-dual. The dual of an isogonal polyhedron (one in which...
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    Great stellated dodecahedron (category KeplerPoinsot polyhedra)
    In geometry, the great stellated dodecahedron is a KeplerPoinsot polyhedron, with Schläfli symbol {⁠5/2⁠,3}. It is one of four nonconvex regular polyhedra...
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    polyhedral compounds, four Kepler-Poinsot polyhedra, and thirteen Archimedean solids, constructing or collecting polyhedron models has become a common...
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  • dodecahedron, geometric solids; see KeplerPoinsot polyhedron This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Kepler star. If an internal link...
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    Kepler defined stellation for polygons and polyhedra as the process of extending edges or faces until they meet to form a new polygon or polyhedron....
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    4-polytope Rub el Hizb Star (glyph) Star polyhedron, KeplerPoinsot polyhedron, and uniform star polyhedron Starfish Grünbaum & Shephard (1987). Tilings...
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    nonprismatic uniform star polyhedra includes the 4 regular ones, called the KeplerPoinsot polyhedra, 14 quasiregular ones, and 39 semiregular ones. There are...
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  • Kepler (1571 – 1630). Kepler conjecture Kepler triangle Kepler–Bouwkamp constant KeplerPoinsot polyhedron Kepler's laws of planetary motion Kepler's...
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  • meaning its dual is the regular tetrahedron itself. 4 regular star KeplerPoinsot solids: great dodecahedron, small stellated dodecahedron, great icosahedron...
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  • triangular tiling Regular polyhedron Platonic solid Tetrahedron Cube Octahedron Dodecahedron Icosahedron KeplerPoinsot polyhedron (regular star polyhedra)...
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    forms the outer shell of the great stellated dodecahedron, a KeplerPoinsot polyhedron with twelve pentagram faces. Each edge of the triakis icosahedron...
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    Great icosahedron (category KeplerPoinsot polyhedra)
    In geometry, the great icosahedron is one of four KeplerPoinsot polyhedra (nonconvex regular polyhedra), with Schläfli symbol {3,5⁄2} and Coxeter-Dynkin...
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  • vertex figures. There are four regular star polyhedra, known as the KeplerPoinsot polyhedra. The Schläfli symbol {p,q} implies faces with p sides, and...
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    edges. The regular dodecahedron can be faceted into one regular KeplerPoinsot polyhedron, three uniform star polyhedra, and three regular polyhedral compound...
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  • polyhedra: Regular polyhedra, that is, the five Platonic solids and the four KeplerPoinsot polyhedra. Disphenoid tetrahedra. Crown polyhedra, also known as stephanoid...
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    each vertex. The great icosahedron is one of the four regular star KeplerPoinsot polyhedra. Its Schläfli symbol is {3, ⁠5/2⁠}. Like the convex form,...
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  • convex polyhedra (where the densities are all 1) and the non-convex KeplerPoinsot polyhedra. Projective polyhedra all have Euler characteristic 1, like...
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    14-metre (46 ft) statue named the Kepler Star. It consists of two internally illuminated KeplerPoinsot polyhedrons, appearing like a giant star in the...
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  • characteristics, as being quasiregular. Two are based on dual pairs of regular KeplerPoinsot solids, in the same way as for the convex examples: the great icosidodecahedron...
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