Here is a tough challenge. Model a Bucky Ball with a surface comprised of twenty hexagons and twelve pentagons. All edges are exactly 1 unit in length. In geometry it is called a truncated icosahedron.
Study up on your descriptive geometry.
It took me one hour.
"This polyhedron can be constructed from an icosahedron with the 12 vertices truncated (cut off) such that one third of each edge is cut off at each of both ends. This creates 12 new pentagon faces, and leaves the original 20 triangle faces as regular hexagons. Thus the length of the edges is one third of that of the original edges."
icosa- is from the Ancient Greek eíkosi meaning twenty
Wikipedia: Truncated_icosahedron
SW2020, nice challenge! I made assembly from pentagon and hexagon surfaces in 10 minutes, but when i tried to make a part (one body) i got some mistakes, it took me 30 min.
My surfacing capabilities are severely lacking. I expect surfaces would be the superior way to do this.
I started with an Icosahedron since I figured out how to make that shape with three golden rectangles. Material was trimmed from the vertices to form the pentagons (like Bob mentioned above).
I should have used patterns to speed this along but didn't realize it soon enough.
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