Type JohnsonJ4 - J5 - J6 Vertices 15 Symmetry group C5v, [5], (*55) | Edges 25 Vertex configuration 10(3.4.10)5(3.4.5.4) | |
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Faces 5 triangles5 squares1 pentagon1 decagon | ||
In geometry, the pentagonal cupola is one of the Johnson solids (J5). It can be obtained as a slice of the rhombicosidodecahedron. The pentagonal cupola consists of 5 equilateral triangles, 5 squares, 1 pentagon, and 1 decagon.
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A Johnson solid is one of 92 strictly convex polyhedra that have regular faces but are not uniform (that is, they are not Platonic solids, Archimedean solids, prisms or antiprisms). They were named by Norman Johnson, who first listed these polyhedra in 1966.
Formulae
The following formulae for volume, surface area and circumradius can be used if all faces are regular, with edge length a:
Dual polyhedron
The dual of the pentagonal cupola has 10 triangular faces and 5 kite faces:
Crossed pentagrammic cupola
In geometry, the crossed pentagrammic cupola is one of the nonconvex Johnson solid isomorphs, being topologically identical to the convex pentagonal cupola. It can be obtained as a slice of the nonconvex great rhombicosidodecahedron or quasirhombicosidodecahedron, analogously to how the pentagonal cupola may be obtained as a slice of the rhombicosidodecahedron. As in all cupolae, the base polygon has twice as many edges and vertices as the top; in this case the base polygon is a decagram.
It may be seen as a cupola with a retrograde pentagrammic base, so that the squares and triangles connect across the bases in the opposite way to the pentagrammic cuploid, hence intersecting each other more deeply.