Constructing the Regular Icosahedron

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Three mutually perpendicular golden rectangles determine the vertices of the regular icosahedron.

Details

P. R. Cromwell, Polyhedra, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997 p. 71.

External Links

Euclid's Construction of a Regular Icosahedron (XIII.16)

Platonic Solids

Icosahedron (Wolfram MathWorld)

Permanent Citation

Izidor Hafner

"Constructing the Regular Icosahedron"
http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/ConstructingTheRegularIcosahedron/
Wolfram Demonstrations Project
Published: January 5, 2012