From Wikipedia:
In geometry, the truncated icosahedron is an Archimedean solid, one of thirteen convex isogonal nonprismatic solids whose faces are two or more types of regular polygon.
It has 12 regular pentagonal faces, 20 regular hexagonal faces, 60 vertices and 90 edges.
A soccer ball:
Here is a tutorial from our class:
http://tag5berry.wikispaces.com/Truncated+Icosahedra
Truncated Icosahedron net:
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/pdf/TruncatedIcosahedron.pdf
Cool website:
http://users.erols.com/quantime/Archimedean.html
In geometry, the truncated icosahedron is an Archimedean solid, one of thirteen convex isogonal nonprismatic solids whose faces are two or more types of regular polygon.
It has 12 regular pentagonal faces, 20 regular hexagonal faces, 60 vertices and 90 edges.
A soccer ball:
Here is a tutorial from our class:
http://tag5berry.wikispaces.com/Truncated+Icosahedra
Truncated Icosahedron net:
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/pdf/TruncatedIcosahedron.pdf
Cool website:
http://users.erols.com/quantime/Archimedean.html
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