Great dirhombicosidodecahedron


In geometry, the great dirhombicosidodecahedron is a nonconvex uniform polyhedron, indexed last as U75. It has 124 faces, 240 edges, and 60 vertices.
This is the only non-degenerate uniform polyhedron with more than six faces meeting at a vertex. Each vertex has 4 squares which pass through the vertex central axis, alternating with two triangles and two pentagrams. Another unusual feature is that the faces all occur in coplanar pairs.
This is also the only uniform polyhedron that cannot be made by the Wythoff construction from a spherical triangle. It has a special Wythoff symbol | 3/2 5/3 3 5/2 relating it to a spherical quadrilateral. This symbol suggests that it is a sort of snub polyhedron, except that instead of the non-snub faces being surrounded by snub triangles as in most snub polyhedra, they are surrounded by snub squares.
It has been nicknamed "Miller's monster".

Related polyhedra

If the definition of a uniform polyhedron is relaxed to allow any even number of faces adjacent to an edge, then this definition gives rise to one further polyhedron: the great disnub dirhombidodecahedron which has the same vertices and edges but with a different arrangement of triangular faces.
The vertices and edges are also shared with the uniform compounds of 20 octahedra or 20 tetrahemihexahedra. 180 of the 240 edges are shared with the great snub dodecicosidodecahedron.

Convex hull
Great snub dodecicosidodecahedron
Great dirhombicosidodecahedron

Great disnub dirhombidodecahedron
Compound of twenty octahedra
Compound of twenty tetrahemihexahedra

Cartesian coordinates

for the vertices of a great dirhombicosidodecahedron are all the even permutations of
where τ = /2 is the golden ratio. These vertices result in an edge length of 2.

Gallery



Traditional filling
Modulo-2 filling
Interior view, modulo-2 filling