Scutoid, four cell with planar faces by JohnPep 3d model
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Scutoid, four cell with planar faces by JohnPep

Scutoid, four cell with planar faces by JohnPep

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Last crawled date: 3 years, 1 month ago
Ed Pegg posted a scutoid which doesn't immediately resemble the scutoids in the recent Nature publication. However, his model is extremely elegant because it has all planar faces.
I tweaked his design a bit, most notably tapering the hexagonal face into the pentagonal face. This allowed the truncated vertex triangle thingy (needs better name!) to be pointed perpendicular to the build plane.
Both uploaded parts are radially symmetrical to make the four cell configuration. Each part has 3 pentagons, 1 hexagon, 3 trapezoids, and 1 triangle. All facets are planar making these scutoids polyhedron?
Thank you to Kitwallace for bringing his interpretation to Thingiverse

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