Great stellated dodecahedron of uniform polyhedra. Truncating edges down to points produces the great icosidodecahedron as a rectified great stellated dodecahedron. The process completes as a birectification, reducing the original faces down to points, and producing 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. Great stellated dodecahedron In geometry, the great stellated dodecahedron is a Kepler-Poinsot polyhedron, with Schläfli symbol {5/2,3}. It is one
Dodecahedron of the wedge-shaped "roof" above the faces of the cube. When "h" = 1, the six cross-edges degenerate to points and a rhombic dodecahedron is formed. When "h" = 0, the cross-edges are absorbed in the facets of the cube, and the pyritohedron reduces to a cube. When "h" = , the multiplicative inverse of the golden ratio, the result is a regular dodecahedron. When "h" = , the conjugate of this value, the result is a regular great stellated dodecahedron. A reflected pyritohedron is made by swapping the nonzero coordinates above. The two pyritohedra can be superimposed to give