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Icosahedral Symmetry on a Sphere
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Here is openSCAD code which covers a sphere with a pattern displaying icosahedral symmetry. The code uses the same technique as that described in thing:39424 Octahedral Symmetry on a Sphere.
The Platonic solids with five fold rotation axes are the icosahedron and the dodecahedron. They share symmetry elements; each has six 5 fold axes, ten 3 fold axes and fifteen 2 fold axes. We can use their vertices, mapped to
a unit sphere, to locate planar patterns with three or five fold rotation axes
The Platonic solids with five fold rotation axes are the icosahedron and the dodecahedron. They share symmetry elements; each has six 5 fold axes, ten 3 fold axes and fifteen 2 fold axes. We can use their vertices, mapped to
a unit sphere, to locate planar patterns with three or five fold rotation axes
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