Geometric Model by D. Pitts, Truncated Trapezoidal Hexecontrahedron
date: label: date made
content: 2010
name: label: maker
content: Pitts, Jr., David T.
notes: label: Description
content: According to the donor, this model is made of Brazilian satinwood and dyed black wood (a sheet of veneer). The sixty wooden sides are truncated faces of a trapezoidal hexecontahedron. When squares were substituted for the normal trapezoids, it left windows in the normally closed figure. The model has thirty rhombic windows, twenty triangular windows and twelve pentagonal windows. Each side has diagonals and a small square marked on it, both on the inside and the outside of the ball.
label: Description
content: For a model of a hexecontahedron (without windows) see 304723.283.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of David T. Pitts, Jr.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2010.0116.01
label: catalog number
content: 2010.0116.01
label: accession number
content: 2010.0116
objectType: label: Object Name
content: geometric model
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 21.3 cm x 21.3 cm x 21.3 cm; 8 3/8 in x 8 3/8 in x 8 3/8 in