ZOME CANTELATED 120 CELL
Dan Duddy, a Zome Master Builder constructs the center core.
Helpers from 4-H clubs stopped by to lend a helping hand.
The Final Masterpiece.
CANTELATED 120-CELL
It’s called the Cantellated 120-cell
It was named this by mathematician Norman Johnson but
it was known to mathematician Alicia Boole Stot in the
early 1900's. This is the first time a model of it
has ever been made so it is a part of math history.
It’s a cousin of the 120-cell a.k.a. the hyperdodecahedron
(the 4D analogue of the dodecahedron)
Its cells are: 120 rhombicosadodecahedra, 600 octahedra, and 1200 triangular prisms.
An important fact about the model we made is that it
is merely a projection ( a shadow) of the real
cantellated 120-cell, therefore we can't see all of its cells.
We only see half of them because the other half is
lying right on top of the others. Each cell
represents two.
This is how many Zome parts you need to build this
model:
1860 zomeballs (Nodes)
1080 short reds struts
1080 medium reds struts
1800 medium yellows struts
1380 medium blues struts
Total Pieces: 7,200