polyhedra and art - modern 1

George Hart, polyhedra artist


Disk Combobulation I is an assemblage of 30 floppy diskettes. The diskettes of same colour are arranged as an exploded cube. Each diskette is penetrated by four diskettes of the other colours.	Labia is an assemblage of 360 CDs based on an archimedean polyhedron: the small rhombicosidodecahedron.

Nailbanger's Nightmare

Fire Ice

Is it the Ying or the Yang ?
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Composed of 24 isosceles trapezoids and 8 equilateral triangles, this curious polyhedron is the intersection of a pair of self dual polyhedra (arranged with perpendicular edges): the canonical form of the tetrahedrally stellated icosahedron.

George W. Hart called this pair of enantiomorph polyhedra which he discovered Ying and Yang.
Exchanging the light and dark faces doesn't change the polyhedron.

( LiveGraphics3D applets )

An icosidodecahedron (12 pentagons and 20 equilateral triangles) has been cut with 30 squares and 6 golden rhombi arranged along three of the six "decagonal equators".

George W. Hart called this pair of polyhedra Fat and Skinny.
The dark faces are those of an icosidodecahedron, the light faces build three intersecting "rings".

Millennium Bookball (1999 - Northport - New York - Public Library)

Assemblage of 60 "wooden books" connected by 32 bronze "donuts" based on the rhombic triacontahedron (the books correspond to the edges). Made of six different hard woods, the "books" are carved with the titles and authors of the 60 "best books" of the century.

Loopy (1999)
aluminium's stips of five colours

The five dodecahedra with identical faces and faces' angles:
• rhombic dodecahedron
• regular dodecahedron
• diamond of order 6 (bipyramid)
• antidiamond of order 6
• triakis-tetrahedron (dual of the truncated tetrahedron)

Salamanders (2003)
carried out with the MIT community

George W. Hart's polyhedral sculptures can be seen in famous universities, in museums... and on his web site!

Ulrich Mikloweit


Polyedergarten

Vladimir Bulatov

Rinus Roelofs Rinus' web site

	cube dissected into three identical polyhedra	Rhombicuboctahedron
	The net of the octahedron has been drawn on the drawing of three hexagonal interlaced grids. The bonze sculpture renders these grids in the space.	Transformation
a nice tetrahedral assembling (26 Tetrahedra)	Slide Construction 3	Linked Cubes