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Great Dirhombicosidodecahedron ("Miller's Monster")

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skrebbel · 1790836868 · focus · HN ↗
I don’t understand what this is. Wikipedia says a uniform polyhedron means that all faces are regular. If all faces are regular, that means its edges are all the same length right? And corners the same angles. But if I look at the photo I can’t find a single face that has that property. Am I looking wrong or am I simply misunderstanding what I’m looking at?
1. PowerElectronix · 1790839137 · focus · HN ↗
  It's a degenerate polyhedron. Their faces intersect and cross one another.
  1. skrebbel · 1790847391 · focus · HN ↗
    Soo it’s not a “real” shape? In the sense that I couldn't mold some clay into this form like I could with eg a football?
    nyankosensei · 1790860249 · focus · HN ↗
    It was made out of paper sheets printed by the “Great Stella” software available elsewhere on the same site:
    <a href="https://www.software3d.com/Stella.php" rel="nofollow">https://www.software3d.com/Stella.php

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