Excavated dodecahedron Excavated dodecahedron In geometry, the excavated dodecahedron is a star polyhedron having 60 equilateral triangular faces. Its exterior surface represents the Efg stellation of the icosahedron. It appears in Magnus Wenninger's book "Polyhedron Models" as model 28, the "third stellation of icosahedron". It has the same external form as a certain facetting of the dodecahedron having 20 self-intersecting hexagons as faces. The non-convex hexagon face can be broken up into four equilateral triangles, three of which are the same size. A true excavated dodecahedron has the three congruent equilateral triangles as true faces of the polyhedron, while the interior equilateral
Regular dodecahedron faces) is while the midradius, which touches the middle of each edge, is These quantities may also be expressed as where "ϕ" is the golden ratio. Note that, given a regular dodecahedron of edge length one, "r" is the radius of a circumscribing sphere about a cube of edge length "ϕ", and "r" is the apothem of a regular pentagon of edge length "ϕ". The surface area "A" and the volume "V" of a regular dodecahedron of edge length "a" are: Additionally, the surface area and volume of a regular dodecahedron are related to the golden ratio. A dodecahedron with