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In geometry, a tetrahedrally diminished dodecahedron (also tetrahedrally stellated icosahedron) is a topologically self-dual polyhedron made of 16 vertices, 30 edges, and 16 faces (4 equilateral triangles and 12 identical quadrilaterals).
It has chiral tetrahedral symmetry, and so its geometry can be constructed from pyritohedral symmetry of the pseudoicosahedron with 4 faces stellated, or from the pyritohedron, with 4 vertices diminished. Within its tetrahedral symmetry, it has geometric varied proportions. By Dorman Luke dual construction, a unique geometric proportion can be defined. The kite faces have edges of length ratio ~ 1:0.6325.
As a self-dual hexadecahedron, it is one of 302404 forms, 1476 with at least order 2 symmetry, and the only one with tetrahedral symmetry.
As a diminished regular dodecahedron, with 4 vertices removed, the quadrilaterals faces are trapezoids.
As a stellation of the regular icosahedron it is one of 32 stellations defined with tetrahedral symmetry. It has kite faces.
In Conway polyhedron notation, it can represented as pT, applying George W. Hart's propeller operator to a regular tetrahedron.
Related polytopes and honeycombs
This polyhedron represents the vertex figure of a hyperbolic uniform honeycomb, the partially diminished icosahedral honeycomb, pd{3,5,3}, with 12 pentagonal antiprisms and 4 dodecahedron cells meeting at every vertex.
Vertex figure projected as Schlegel diagram