icosahedron

• People stopped and gazed up to where a spacecraft, an enormous icosahedron-shaped vessel, had suddenly appeared. —  AnalogSFF,June2007
• The unique shape of the Easy Dome, called an icosahedron, is designed to optimize the amount of interior space inside each home. —  INHABITAT
• • Plato (427-347 BCE), in his Timaeus, describes five possible regular solids (the Platonic solids, the tetrahedron, cube, octahedron, dodecahedron and icosahedron), some of which are related to the golden ratio. —  Recently Uploaded Slideshows
• If you'd like to make your own icosahedron (the more elaborate one of those two), download this template (PDF) and print out ten copies of it. —  jeweled platypus
• However, the bit of genius that will send you racing to order you own are the maps which have been plotted to create a cut-and-fold icosahedron atlas (below) - a twenty sided object comprised of equilateral triangles. —  Cool Hunting

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