Dodecahedron regular dodecahedron but less symmetrical: the pyritohedron with pyritohedral symmetry, and the tetartoid with tetrahedral symmetry: A pyritohedron is a dodecahedron with pyritohedral (T) symmetry. Like the regular dodecahedron, it has twelve identical pentagonal faces, with three meeting in each of the 20 vertices. However, the pentagons are not constrained to be regular, and the underlying atomic arrangement has no true fivefold symmetry axes. Its 30 edges are divided into two sets – containing 24 and 6 edges of the same length. The only axes of rotational symmetry are three mutually perpendicular twofold axes and four threefold axes. Although regular
Rhombic dodecahedron Bilinski dodecahedron. It has the same topology but different geometry. The rhombic faces in this form have the golden ratio. Another topologically equivalent variation, sometimes called a deltoidal dodecahedron or trapezoidal dodecahedron, is isohedral with tetrahedral symmetry order 24, distorting rhombic faces into kites (deltoids). It has 8 vertices adjusted in or out in alternate sets of 4, with the limiting case a tetrahedral envelope. Variations can be parametrized by ("a","b"), where "b" is determined from "a" for planar faces. (1,1) is the rhombic solution. As ("a") approaches , ("b") approaches infinity. When projected onto a sphere (see right), it