TimeStar

Written by Paul Bourke
August 2003
Models
VRML
PovRay
Geom


The so called "timestar" shown below is an elegant (and at times somewhat confusing) set of 5 interlocking tetrahedrons.


timestar.inc

Order can be made of this jumble by realising that the vertices of all the tetrahedra lie at the midpoints of the triangular faces of a icosahedron.


icosahedra.inc

Which similarly means the vertices coincide with the vertices of the dodecahedron.


dodecahedron.inc


faces.inc

View from the inside, equirectangular projection.