Definition of Stellations. Meaning of Stellations. Synonyms of Stellations

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Definition of Stellations

Stellation
Stellation Stel*la"tion, n. Radiation of light. [Obs.]

Meaning of Stellations from wikipedia

- edges lie in primary lines, the stellation is primary. All primary stellations are fully supported. Miller stellations. In "The Fifty-Nine Icosahedra"...
- of the neighbouring faces. Luke describes four more stellations: the second and third stellations (expanding outwards), one formed by removing the second...
- fully supported stellations generated by an icosahedron. The seventeenth prime number is 59, which is equal to the total number of stellations of the icosahedron...
- supported stellations. One of the stellations of the rhombic triacontahedron is the compound of five cubes. The total number of stellations of the rhombic...
- fifty-nine stellations for the regular icosahedron. The regular icosahedron itself is the zeroth stellation of an icosahedron, and the first stellation has each...
- icosahedron is one of the stellations of the icosahedron. (See The Fifty-Nine Icosahedra) The three others are all the stellations of the dodecahedron. The...
- There are also three regular star dodecahedra, which are constructed as stellations of the convex form. All of these have icosahedral symmetry, order 120...
- their book The Fifty-Nine Icosahedra, Coxeter et al. enumerated 59 such stellations of the regular icosahedron. Of these, many have a single face in each...
- to ensure that no two stellations look outwardly identical. Rule (v) prevents any disconnected compound of simpler stellations. Coxeter was the main driving...
- extended the stellation theory beyond regular forms, and identified ten stellations of the icosahedron, including the complete stellation. Wheeler (1924)...