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#truncatedIcosahedron

Tim’s truncated icosahedron for a school project (with some help from @justvanrossum and me)
#truncatedicosahedron #polyhedron #football #soccer

A truncated icosahedron made of paper

Made a buckyball. #truncatedIcosahedron #polyhedra #magnets

The first half of the buckyball: six pentagons made of golden spheres, and ten hexagons made of silvery ones, arranged in something like a hemisphere.

One more layer: fifteen hexagons now, giving a more pentagonal appearance.

Another five golden pentagons mean the form is only six polygons away from completion.

The complete truncated icosahedron - the same shape as a traditional football, or a C60 molecule, but made of spherical magnets. It is pictured here in the palm of my hand.

@scrappapertiger.bsky.social made a modular origami buckyball! #truncatedIcosahedron #polyhedra

Each polygonal face has a complimentary polygonal hole. Each vertex is made from colourful folded paper, in an approximately hexagonal shape, folded in, so that the faces are concave.

Sonny holds the polyhedron aloft.

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