This is something I made, as a gift for someone, out of beads. Maybe the colors don`t seem that exciting, but the person`s favorite color is brown, s
This is something I made, as a gift for someone, out of beads. Maybe the colors don`t seem that exciting, but the person`s favorite color is brown, so. . .
The figure is a polyhedron known as a stellated dodecahedron. It was made by creating 30 diamond shaped pieces from beads and wire, and sewing them together, with wire, in the appropriate fashion. The idea was to make something which was three dimensional, but had a lot of symmetry. As far as polyhedra (3D polygons) with maximal symmetry go, the range of choices is fairly limited: one has tetrahedra, cubes, octohedra, dodecahedra, and icosohedra (the Platonic solids). It is a little problematic to make something like a pentagon from beads tho, whereas adding the stellation allows you to just use simple diamond shapes. Basically, instead of having a plain dodecahedron, you instead are looking at a dodecahedron with a spike jutting out of each face.
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