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English: Dodecahedron” means “polyhedron of twelve faces”. “A great dodecahedron” is a regular dodecahedron that is not convex, and the faces of which are convex pentagons. Six of the twelve intertwined pentagons of the image show their six colours, and nine of the twelve vertices are visible. At each visible vertex, the drawing shows two, or three, or four of the five faces that share this vertex. A great dodecahedron have the same vertices and the same edges as its convex hull: a convex regular icosahedron, i.e. a convex regular polyhedron of twenty faces, also called “Platonic icosahedron”. The center of the drawing represents notably the dodecahedron center: its symmetry center. We can group its twelve faces by pair of parallel faces, symmetric one to the other with respect to the polyhedron center.


A great dodecahedron can be constructed from a Platonic icosahedron, by considering its thirty edges as those of a nonconvex regular dodecahedron. A second means to construct a great dodecahedron from a Platonic solid of thirty edges is a polyhedral stellation of a convex regular dodecahedron, also called “Platonic dodecahedron”. Given a Platonic dodecahedron, we construct the twelve polygonal stellations of its faces. And their twelve vertices are those of a great dodecahedron.

 
Français : Dodécaèdre” signifie “polyèdre de douze faces”. “Un grand dodécaèdre” est un dodécaèdre régulier qui n'est pas convexe, et dont les faces sont des pentagones convexes. Six des douze pentagones entrecroisés de l’image montrent leurs six couleurs, et neuf des douze sommets sont visibles. À chaque sommet visible, le dessin montre deux, ou trois, ou quatre des cinq faces qui partagent ce sommet. Un grand dodécaèdre a les mêmes sommets et les mêmes arêtes que son enveloppe convexe : un icosaèdre régulier convexe, c’est-à-dire un polyèdre régulier de vingt faces, aussi appelé “icosaèdre de Platon”. Le centre du dessin représente notamment le centre du dodécaèdre : son centre de symétrie. Nous pouvons grouper ses douze faces par paires de faces parallèles, symétriques l’une de l’autre par rapport au centre du polyèdre.


On peut construire un grand dodécaèdre à partir d’un icosaèdre de Platon, en considérant ses trente arêtes comme celles d’un dodécaèdre régulier non convexe. Un second moyen de construire un grand dodécaèdre à partir d’un solide de Platon de trente arêtes est l’étoilement d’un dodécaèdre régulier convexe, aussi appelé “dodécaèdre de Platon”. Étant donné un dodécaèdre de Platon, on construit les douze étoilements polygonaux de ses faces. Et leurs douze sommets sont ceux d’un grand dodécaèdre.
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