Dodecahedron dodecahedron has several stellations, the first of which is also a parallelohedral spacefiller. Another important rhombic dodecahedron, the Bilinski dodecahedron, has twelve faces congruent to those of the rhombic triacontahedron, i.e. the diagonals are in the ratio of the golden ratio. It is also a zonohedron and was described by Bilinski in 1960. This figure is another spacefiller, and can also occur in non-periodic spacefillings along with the rhombic triacontahedron, the rhombic icosahedron and rhombic hexahedra. There are 6,384,634 topologically distinct "convex" dodecahedra, excluding mirror images—the number of vertices ranges from 8 to 20. (Two polyhedra are "topologically distinct" if
Regular dodecahedron Shown here including the inner 12 vertices, which are not connected by the outer hull edges of 6D norm length , form a regular icosahedron. <br>The 3D projection basis vectors ["u","v","w"] used are: Regular dodecahedral objects have found some practical applications, and have also played a role in the visual arts and in philosophy. Iamblichus states that Hippasus, a Pythagorean, perished in the sea, because he boasted that he first divulged "the sphere with the twelve pentagons." In "Theaetetus", a dialogue of Plato, Plato was able to prove that there are just five uniform regular solids; these later became known