Homohedral construction employing icosahedron
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1. A structural framework in which the main structural elements comprise at least three icosahedral members, each icosahedral member being truncated about a vertex by the removal of five icosahedral faces about said vertex and at least one of said three icosahedral members being truncated about at least two non-adjacent, non-opposing vertex points, said truncated icosahedral members being joined along planes of truncation thus formed.
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Homohedral construction is a building and truss system based on the regular icosahedron. It is analogous to the standard building or truss system based on the cube, which is characterized by 90° corners and edges on its struts and planar surfaces.
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- 1. A structural framework in which the main structural elements comprise at least three icosahedral members, each icosahedral member being truncated about a vertex by the removal of five icosahedral faces about said vertex and at least one of said three icosahedral members being truncated about at least two non-adjacent, non-opposing vertex points, said truncated icosahedral members being joined along planes of truncation thus formed.
- 28. secondary mating edge type, with its major convex edge identical in angular configuration to a convex edge as it occurs between two pentagons on said truncated icosahedron.
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