Truncated great icosahedron

Cartesian coordinates for the vertices of a truncated great icosahedron centered at the origin are all the even permutations of

$${\displaystyle {\begin{array}{crccc}{\Bigl (}&\pm \,1,&0,&\pm \,{\frac {3}{\varphi }}&{\Bigr )}\\{\Bigl (}&\pm \,2,&\pm \,{\frac {1}{\varphi }},&\pm \,{\frac {1}{\varphi ^{3}}}&{\Bigr )}\\{\Bigl (}&\pm {\bigl [}1+{\frac {1}{\varphi ^{2}}}{\bigr ]},&\pm \,1,&\pm \,{\frac {2}{\varphi }}&{\Bigr )}\end{array}}}$$

where ${\displaystyle \varphi ={\tfrac {1+{\sqrt {5}}}{2}}}$ is the golden ratio. Using ${\displaystyle {\tfrac {1}{\varphi ^{2}}}=1-{\tfrac {1}{\varphi }}}$ one verifies that all vertices are on a sphere, centered at the origin, with the radius squared equal to ${\displaystyle 10-{\tfrac {9}{\varphi }}.}$ The edges have length 2.

This polyhedron is the truncation of the great icosahedron:

The truncated great stellated dodecahedron is a degenerate polyhedron, with 20 triangular faces from the truncated vertices, and 12 (hidden) pentagonal faces as truncations of the original pentagram faces, the latter forming a great dodecahedron inscribed within and sharing the edges of the icosahedron.

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Name	Great stellated dodecahedron	Truncated great stellated dodecahedron	Great icosidodecahedron	Truncated great icosahedron	Great icosahedron
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Great stellapentakis dodecahedron

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Great stellapentakis dodecahedron
Type	Star polyhedron
Face
Elements	F = 60, E = 90 V = 32 (χ = 2)
Symmetry group	Ih, [5,3], *532
Index references	DU55
dual polyhedron	Truncated great icosahedron

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The great stellapentakis dodecahedron is a nonconvex isohedral polyhedron. It is the dual of the truncated great icosahedron. It has 60 intersecting triangular faces.

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