Regular icosahedron Regular icosahedron In geometry, a regular icosahedron ( or ) is a convex polyhedron with 20 faces, 30 edges and 12 vertices. It is one of the five Platonic solids, and the one with the most sides. It has five equilateral triangular faces meeting at each vertex. It is represented by its Schläfli symbol {3,5}, or sometimes by its vertex figure as 3.3.3.3.3 or 3. It is the dual of the dodecahedron, which is represented by {5,3}, having three pentagonal faces around each vertex. A regular icosahedron is a gyroelongated pentagonal bipyramid and a biaugmented pentagonal antiprism in any of
Great dodecahedron pentagram, its two-dimensional analogue, via the extension of the ("n-1")-D pentagonal polytope faces of the core "n"D polytope (pentagons for the great dodecahedron, and line segments for the pentagram) until the figure again closes. It shares the same edge arrangement as the convex regular icosahedron; the compound with both is the small complex icosidodecahedron. If only the visible surface is considered, it has the same topology as a triakis icosahedron with concave pyramids rather than convex ones. The excavated dodecahedron can be seen as the same process applied to a regular dodecahedron. A truncation process applied to the great dodecahedron