Playing with “zonish polyhedra” and the icosidodecahedron

Yesterday I stumbled on George Hart’s website and found some neat ideas to play around with using our Zometool set:

https://www.georgehart.com/virtual-polyhedra/zometool.html

https://www.georgehart.com/virtual-polyhedra/zonish_polyhedra.html

After seeing these pages my younger son and I built one of the models and talked about it:

Today we explored the shape a bit more by building an icosidodecahedron and comparing it to the shape from yesterday:

Two wrap up today we looked at how spherical the icosidodecahedron is. I would have like to do the same exercise for the “zonish polyhedra” we were look at, but I’m not sure how to calculate the volume of that shape.

This was a really fun project – it is absolutely amazing how easy it is to explore 3d geometry with a Zometool set!