# Please help me find a good picture of this geometric figure

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**Created:** [July 8, 2005, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-find-a-good-picture-of-this-geometric-figure/311524 "2005-07-08T00:19:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2005, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-find-a-good-picture-of-this-geometric-figure/311524/1 "2005-07-08T00:19:05Z")

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or better still, a way of generating one of these at will. The “ten great circles forming a pattern of stars” figure. The only example I could Google to even show what I’m talking about is [HERE](http://www.geocities.com/nicholasshea1/tesselsphere/geodesic/icosa_great_circles.html) ,(figure III), but I’d really like a better one.

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**Author:** ![j\_sum1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8baadc/32.png) [@j\_sum1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j_sum1)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2005, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-find-a-good-picture-of-this-geometric-figure/311524/2 "2005-07-08T01:27:54Z")

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Looks to me like you might want an icosidodecahedron  
[http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Icosidodecahedron.html](http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Icosidodecahedron.html)  
If you want others then you should look up the link for archimedian solids. There are 13 of them.