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Golden Rhombohedron


GoldenRhombohedra

A golden rhombohedron is a rhombohedron whose faces consist of congruent golden rhombi. Golden rhombohedra are therefore special cases of a trigonal trapezohedron as well as zonohedra.

There are two distinct golden rhombohedra: the acute golden rhombohedron and obtuse golden rhombohedron. Both are built from six golden rhombi and comprise two of the five golden isozonohedra. These polyhedra are implemented in the Wolfram Language as PolyhedronData["AcuteGoldenRhombohedron"] and PolyhedronData["ObtuseGoldenRhombohedron"], respectively.

The acute and obtuse golden rhombohedra with edge length a both have surface area

 S=(12)/5sqrt(5)a^2,
(1)

and have volumes

V_a=1/5sqrt(10+2sqrt(5))a^3
(2)
V_o=1/5sqrt(10-2sqrt(5))a^3,
(3)

respectively.


See also

Acute Golden Rhombohedron, Golden Isozonohedron, Golden Ratio, Golden Rhombus, Obtuse Golden Rhombohedron, Rhombic Hexecontahedron, Rhombohedron, Trigonal Trapezohedron, Zonohedron

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References

Kabai, S. Mathematical Graphics I: Lessons in Computer Graphics Using Mathematica. Püspökladány, Hungary: Uniconstant, pp. 169 and 171, 2002.Livio, M. The Golden Ratio: The Story of Phi, the World's Most Astonishing Number. New York: Broadway Books, p. 206, 2002.

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Golden Rhombohedron

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Weisstein, Eric W. "Golden Rhombohedron." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Web Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/GoldenRhombohedron.html

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