Creating an Icosahedron

Creating an Icosahedron

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Creating an Icosahedron

rob
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I'm creating an icosahedron by joining the the corners of three golden ratio rectangles (see the picture) Each triangular face is made by joining three points together. Currently I am Constructing  a Plane through three points then sketching the triangle for each face with the line tool. It is time consuming and I will end up with 20 planes and 23 objects when I'm done. My question is, is there a better way of doing this?icos.jpg  icos01.jpg

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This part has been bothering me for some time. I watched a toddler do this with a box cube game. He was doing this with another child. They're both toddles, boy and girl. This is what they were trying to do. It makes sense because it does provide the perfect ratio. And if you divide shapes like platonic solids they change the amount of sides they can 'physically' hold. Four sided cube can only become 8, but it's no longer platonic.

I'll just leave the files so you can make your own resolution.

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