Great retrosnub icosidodecahedron

Great retrosnub icosidodecahedron

Type	Uniform star polyhedron
Elements	F = 92, E = 150 V = 60 (χ = 2)
Faces by sides	(20+60){3}+12{5/2}
Coxeter diagram
Wythoff symbol	\| 2 3/2 5/3
Symmetry group	I, [5,3]⁺, 532
Index references	U₇₄, C₉₀, W₁₁₇
Dual polyhedron	Great pentagrammic hexecontahedron
Vertex figure	(3⁴.5/2)/2
Bowers acronym	Girsid

In geometry, the great retrosnub icosidodecahedron or great inverted retrosnub icosidodecahedron is a nonconvex uniform polyhedron, indexed as U₇₄. It is given a Schläfli symbol sr{3/2,5/3}. George Olshevsky named it "Azathoth," after the Lovecraftian god.

Cartesian coordinates

Cartesian coordinates for the vertices of a great retrosnub icosidodecahedron are all the even permutations of

(±2α, ±2, ±2β),

(±(α−βτ−1/τ), ±(α/τ+β−τ), ±(−ατ−β/τ−1)),

(±(ατ−β/τ+1), ±(−α−βτ+1/τ), ±(−α/τ+β+τ)),

(±(ατ−β/τ−1), ±(α+βτ+1/τ), ±(−α/τ+β−τ)) and

(±(α−βτ+1/τ), ±(−α/τ−β−τ), ±(−ατ−β/τ+1)),

with an even number of plus signs, where

α = ξ−1/ξ

and

β = −ξ/τ+1/τ²−1/(ξτ),

where τ = (1+√5)/2 is the golden mean and ξ is the smaller positive real root of ξ³−2ξ=−1/τ, namely

\xi ={\frac {\left(1+i{\sqrt {3}}\right)\left({\frac {1}{2\tau }}+{\sqrt {{\frac {\tau ^{-2}}{4}}-{\frac {8}{27}}}}\right)^{\frac {1}{3}}+\left(1-i{\sqrt {3}}\right)\left({\frac {1}{2\tau }}-{\sqrt {{\frac {\tau ^{-2}}{4}}-{\frac {8}{27}}}}\right)^{\frac {1}{3}}}{2}}

or approximately 0.3264046. Taking the odd permutations of the above coordinates with an odd number of plus signs gives another form, the enantiomorph of the other one. Taking the odd permutations with an even number of plus signs or vice versa results in the same two figures rotated by 90 degrees.

The circumradius for unit edge length is

R={\frac {1}{2}}{\sqrt {\frac {2-x}{1-x}}}=0.580002\dots

where $x$ is the appropriate root of $x^{3}+2x^{2}={\Big (}{\tfrac {1\pm {\sqrt {5}}}{2}}{\Big )}^{2}$ . The four positive real roots of the sextic in $R^{2},$