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dodecahedron

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A solid having twelve faces.

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A cube can be inscribed in a dodecahedron so that each vertex of the cube is a vertex of the dodecahedron and each edge is a diagonal of one of the dodecahedron's faces; taking all such cubes gives rise to the regular compound of five cubes. Source: Internet

A huge dodecahedron, in perspective so that edges appear in golden ratio to one another, is suspended above and behind Jesus and dominates the composition. Source: Internet

As it turns out, the icosahedron occupies less of the sphere's volume (60.54%) than the dodecahedron (66.49%). Source: Internet

For example, the small stellated dodecahedron has 12 pentagram faces with the central pentagonal part hidden inside the solid. Source: Internet

For this reason, the image shown above shows the small stellated dodecahedron in wireframe. Source: Internet

Geometric freedom The pyritohedron has a geometric degree of freedom with limiting cases of a cubic convex hull at one limit of colinear edges, and a rhombic dodecahedron as the other limit as 6 edges are degenerated to length zero. Source: Internet

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