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Goldberg Polyhedra

April 11, 2025

Although it appears simple, Goldberg Polyhedra in Grasshopper became a tough challenge, which I like a lot. I spent about 24 hours attempting to generate these polyhedra. I started with Goldberg’s original method. This creates an equilateral triangle using coordinates denoted as m and n on a hexagonal grid. Then, we place this triangle onto the faces of an icosahedron. Finally, we project them onto a concentric sphere. We can create many polyhedra by changing the values of m and…

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