Pentagrammic antiprism
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Geometry arose as the field of knowledge dealing with spatial relationships. Geometry was one of the two fields of pre-modern mathematics, the other being the study of numbers ....

, the pentagrammic antiprism is one in an infinite set of nonconvex antiprisms formed by triangle sides and two regular star polygon caps, in this case two pentagram
Pentagram
A pentagram is the shape of a five-pointed star drawn with five straight strokes...

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This polyhedron is identified with the indexed name U79 as a uniform polyhedron
Uniform polyhedron
A uniform polyhedron is a polyhedron which has regular polygons as faces and is vertex-transitive...

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An alternative representation with hollow centers to the pentagrams.

External links

  • http://www.mathconsult.ch/showroom/unipoly/04.html
  • http://www.math.technion.ac.il/~rl/kaleido/data/04.html
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