R. Buckminster F_cker

Thanks for the links! How did you stellate your model? If you glued pentagonal- and hexagonal- based pyramids to the faces of the truncated icosahedron, then, technically, you didn't stellate it. You AUGMENTED it with pyramids. It's still a cool model, I'm sure. A lot of text out there gives bad info as to what stellation means, precisely. Common misconception to conflate augmentation with stellation. But I haven't seen your model - maybe you did stellate it, in which case, shut up R. Bucky F_ckface! BTW, The math of polyhedra is above me too. I bought the authoritative mathematical text about polyhedra - sumpin' sumpin',I can't recall the name - by HSM Coxeter, and I couldn't understand a single page of the stuff. Not enough pictures in his book either:-) I'm into polyhedra for the visual aesthetics of proportion, symmetry and elegant spatial interrelationships among forms. It's precisely because I can't understand any math beyond long division (I aced H.S. geometry, but college boozing erased that knowledge) I said it's precisely because of my math-tardation that I appreciate polyhedra. They give a person a spatial/visual means of understanding something akin to what mathematicians might experience from a "beautiful" equation. At least, I think they do, I dunno. Most people who are "into" polyhedra (and, once, this included Leonardo da Vinci, among other smart folks) appreciate them primarily for their visual beauty - it says so on the back cover of HSM Coxeter's authoritative book. I'm glad you're interested in polyhedra! I like shapes that are pretty and I'm not ashamed of that! I'm ashamed of my innumeracy, though - deeply ashamed. Well..it ain't that bad. But I'll add "for the kids' sake" that some very good sculptors around today were trained as mathematicians and owe their high degree of creativity with shape and form to their math training. Bathsheba Grossman makes really novel forms, for one. She's got a great website too, last I checked. I'll learn to edit my writing for length one day. You're very patient if you read all this. Thank you!

You practically have a duty to make your idea and show it off. I'd like to see it - make it and post pictures! Proof of concept, right? Thanks for your comments.