Hi,
in the attached picture I show you the three puzzles from the group of sharp truncations I have built over the last months. The left one is the only new one. The other two where posted each in a group of other mods.

"Sharp Truncations" means that they are built with the same technique of truncating a 3x3x3.
The left and the right one have received some minor extensions.
I made a forth variant (Cheops Cube) a while ago without knowing that it uses the same technique.
I analysed how many other variants are there which could be made with this technique of truncation. I came up with 916 variants of which only 54 are highly symmetric (=> number of different symmetries per variant less or equal 16).

Another reason to post this was a PM I received a while ago where I was asked whether the Dodecahedron is a regular one. Answer: Not purposely and therefore: NO

BTW: The signatures of the four variants are
52882000 (Keilwürfel; on the left)
1810452882060 (Dodecahedron; in the middle)
154000AA000 (Sharp Octahedron; on the right)
AA000 (Cheops Cube; no picture here)

I really like the first one! It looks like a modern church architecture or something.
Nice job on all of them.

COOL! I like toe dodahedromn one. It looks like a skewbultimate.

simply awesome. i love the dodecahedron!

Thank you, guys.

I really like the dodecahedron, not only because I have one of these made by Andreas.
I got another one made for me by Anthony,

The one shown in your DCD2008-puzzles? Has Anthony done that solely by truncating?

I really need to know if the dodecahedron is a regular dodecahedron (are all the sides the same size). And if they are, how do you make one??? I know someone generously put out a tutorial, but I can't follow it.

Steryne, try this thread out.

I figured it out!

After looking at this thread I saw that you had already made the non-truncating one like I thought. So it could only be an octahedron made from the truncated cube featured in this thread. I figured it was this one because this octa looks smaller than the non-truncated one.

For further illustration, I think it's the one circled..



Also:

@Steryne: Supermans link to the original post should answer any question considering the build of this mod. If not feel free to ask another one.
Speaking about the regularitiy: Because it is just a truncation mod it is NO regular dodecahedron.
Can Geert or Georges please take some measures to prove that?

@Superman: Right again. But wrong thread

I have made it on google sketchup a few times and It isn't regular.

Sometimes I miss some posts. Like this one.
No, Anthony didn't truncate.
He has another method, but don't ask me any details.
I'm more into collecting and playing then modding and building.

CALLING ANTHONY TO THE THREAD!
WHERE ARE YOU?