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Convex Polyhedron Built of 30 Congruent Rhombuses.



Above is a picture of a polyhedron built of 30 congruent rhombuses. Some details about faces of this polyhedron are mentioned on the page of 'Literka' Convex polyhedrons built of rhombuses . A page of 'Literka' Volume of a polyhedron built of 30 congruent rhombuses provides the way to find a formula for volume of this polyhedron.



Divide the vertices of this polyhedron into two groups:
- Group A consisting of vertices, which are common points of 3 edges.
- Group B consisting of vertices, which are common points of 5 edges.

It appears that points of the group A – these are vertices of some regular dodecahedron. It appears also that points of the group B – these are vertices of some regular icosahedron. (Notice: both dodecahedron and icosahedron are Plato's polyhedrons. See a page of ‘Literka’ about them.)
It follows that all vertices lie on some 2 spheres.

This polyhedron could be obtained in the following way: take a regular dodecahedron, take a plane H joining and edge with a symmetry center, draw a plane perpendicular to this plane H passing through this edge; finally do this with all edges: as a result we obtain 30-faces polyhedron built of rhombuses.

This polyhedron can be truncated to obtain a main cross section of a regular 120-cells polytope. (See Cross section of 120-cells regular polytope).


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