Festive Harmony (Polyhedral Christmas Ornaments)

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Were Plato with us today, these would most certainly be on both his ideal and real Christmas trees! This ornament consists of a dodecahedron whose faces are held in place by a wireframe spherical icosahedron. The dodecahedron faces come in two variations, a star, and a slightly modified pentaflake (second iteration). The concept of using an icosahedron as a support frame for a dodecahedron was inspired by the split polyhedra in Rinus Roelofs’s project Dynamic Tilings (archived version)