Modeling Rhombicosidodecahedron
The rhombicosidodecahedron, an Archimedean solid, is one of the 13 convex polyhedra made up of regular polygons. While all its faces are congruent, they consist of various types of regular polygons. I previously explored this fascinating polyhedron and am revisiting it now as part of the Architectural Geometry course. In this short tutorial video, I demonstrate the modeling of a rhombicosidodecahedron. Despite its lengthy and unusual name, this polyhedron is truly a remarkable and beautiful structure. I hope that this and other tutorials are useful for beginner-level architectural and design students.
In the freshmen-year Architectural Geometry course, I’ve been guiding students through a series of in-class exercises that cover Euclidean constructions, basic drawing and transformation commands, introductory fractals, regular and semi-regular tessellations, patterns, and the modeling and unrolling of polyhedra using Rhinoceros software. I designed these concise drawing exercises and tutorials to benefit junior architects, interior designers, industrial designers, and enthusiasts from various disciplines. I plan to publish these exercises weekly on my blog and other platforms. This week’s exercise focuses on modeling a rhombicosidodecahedron. So, please follow me here and on other platforms to encourage me to produce more content like this. Thank you.
The software used in this course is Rhinoceros 3d (www.rhino3d.com). However, if you want to find out more and see the whole list of this video series, you can check my YouTube channel at www.youtube.com/@designcodingnet. The music of this video is ‘Absolution’ by Scott Buckley (CC-BY 4.0). www.scottbuckley.com.au
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