Regular dodecahedron a dodecahedron. Regular dodecahedron A regular dodecahedron or pentagonal dodecahedron is a dodecahedron that is regular, which is composed of twelve regular pentagonal faces, three meeting at each vertex. It is one of the five Platonic solids. It has 12 faces, 20 vertices, 30 edges, and 160 diagonals (60 face diagonals, 100 space diagonals). It is represented by the Schläfli symbol {5,3}. If the edge length of a regular dodecahedron is "a", the radius of a circumscribed sphere (one that touches the regular dodecahedron at all vertices) is and the radius of an inscribed sphere (tangent to each of the
Rhombic dodecahedron vectors are: "u"=(1,1,-1,-1), "v"=(-1,1,-1,1), "w"=(1,-1,-1,1). The rhombic dodecahedron forms the maximal cross-section of a 24-cell, and also forms the hull of its vertex-first parallel projection into three dimensions. The rhombic dodecahedron can be decomposed into six congruent (but non-regular) square dipyramids meeting at a single vertex in the center; these form the images of six pairs of the 24-cell's octahedral cells. The remaining 12 octahedral cells project onto the faces of the rhombic dodecahedron. The non-regularity of these images are due to projective distortion; the facets of the 24-cell are regular octahedra in 4-space. This decomposition gives an interesting method