Polyhedrons

The sphere-shaped objects on this page are based upon polyhedrons. The zebrawood, brazilian cherry and lazpacho spheres are based upon an icosohedron. Each of the 20 triangular faces on an icosohedron has been replaced by a circular disc. The discs are joined at the edges by wooden keys. The openings that are formed at the intersections of five discs allow you to look through the sphere and see the inside surface. If each of these 12 openings were filled with a disc you obtain an object that resembles a soccer ball (an icosododecahedron). The spalted beech and flame box elder objects are based upon a dodecahedron. These objects are not spherical because the 12 discs were cone shaped. The points from three adjacent discs in these objects each form a triangular face. There are 20 of these triangles, so the final shape resembles a bacteriophage capsid. I am exploring how the shape of the final object changes as you alter the thickness and final shape of the component parts.