Triangular hebesphenorotunda

Triangular hebesphenorotunda
Type	Johnson J91 - J92 - J1
Faces	13 triangles 3 squares 3 pentagons 1 hexagon
Edges	36
Vertices	18
Vertex configuration	3(33.5) 6(3.4.3.5) 3(3.5.3.5) 2.3(32.4.6)
Symmetry group	C3v
Dual polyhedron	-
Properties	convex
Net

3D model of a triangular hebesphenorotunda

In geometry, the triangular hebesphenorotunda is one of the Johnson solids (J₉₂).

A Johnson solid is one of 92 strictly convex polyhedra that is composed of regular polygon faces but are not uniform polyhedra (that is, they are not Platonic solids, Archimedean solids, prisms, or antiprisms). They were named by Norman Johnson, who first listed these polyhedra in 1966.^[1]

It is one of the elementary Johnson solids, which do not arise from "cut and paste" manipulations of the Platonic and Archimedean solids. However, it does have a strong relationship to the icosidodecahedron, an Archimedean solid. Most evident is the cluster of three pentagons and four triangles on one side of the solid. If these faces are aligned with a congruent patch of faces on the icosidodecahedron, then the hexagonal face will lie in the plane midway between two opposing triangular faces of the icosidodecahedron.

The triangular hebesphenorotunda also has clusters of faces that can be aligned with corresponding faces of the rhombicosidodecahedron: the three lunes, each lune consisting of a square and two antipodal triangles adjacent to the square.

The faces around each (3³.5) vertex can also be aligned with the corresponding faces of various diminished icosahedra.

Johnson uses the prefix hebespheno- to refer to a blunt wedge-like complex formed by three adjacent lunes, a lune being a square with equilateral triangles attached on opposite sides. The suffix (triangular) -rotunda refers to the complex of three equilateral triangles and three regular pentagons surrounding another equilateral triangle, which bears structural resemblance to the pentagonal rotunda.^[1]

The triangular hebesphenorotunda is the only Johnson solid with faces of 3, 4, 5 and 6 sides.

Cartesian coordinates[]

Cartesian coordinates for the triangular hebesphenorotunda with edge length √5 – 1 are given by the union of the orbits of the points

${\displaystyle \left(0,-{\frac {2}{\tau {\sqrt {3}}}},{\frac {2\tau }{\sqrt {3}}}\right),\left(\tau ,{\frac {1}{{\sqrt {3}}\tau ^{2}}},{\frac {2}{\sqrt {3}}}\right),}$

${\displaystyle \left(\tau ,-{\frac {\tau }{\sqrt {3}}},{\frac {2}{{\sqrt {3}}\tau }}\right),\left({\frac {2}{\tau }},0,0\right),}$

under the action of the group generated by rotation by 120° around the z-axis and the reflection about the yz-plane.^[2] Here,