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An
animated
Pentakis dodecahedron
, member of the
Catalan solids
. Catalan solids are all
convex
, face-
uniform
but not
vertex
-uniform. This is because the dual
Archimedean solids
are vertex-uniform and not face uniform. Note that unlike
Platonic solids
and Archimedean solids, the faces of Catalan solids are
not
regular polygons
. However, the
vertex figures
of Catalan solids are regular, and they have constant
dihedral angles
. Additionally, two of the Catalan solids are edge-uniform: the
rhombic dodecahedron
and the
rhombic triacontahedron
. These are the duals of the two quasi-regular Archimedean solids.
Photo credit:
W. M. Connolley
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