Colouring Patterns

A sample set of polyhedral patterns is listed below, they have been made using the RISCOS program, "!PolySymm" mostly using the "wire" display option coloured black so that both the front and back can be seen at the same time.

Each pattern is a Drawfile which has a shaded 3D model of the polyhedron at top left,
a name in the centre and a line drawing of the pattern below.
The list below describes the patterns we have made so far:

• C001 Truncated icosahedron seen along a 5 fold axis
• C002 Truncated icosahedron seen along a 3 fold axis
• C003 Truncated icosahedron seen along a 2 fold axis rotated a little
• C004 great icosahedron seen along a 5 fold axis front and back
• C005 great icosahedron seen along a 5 fold axis just front
• C006 great icosahedron seen along a 3 fold axis just front
• C007 great icosahedron seen along a 3 fold axis front and back
• C008 pentakis dodecahedron seen along a 5 fold axis
• C009 pentakis dodecahedron seen along a 3 fold axis
• C010 Truncated icosahedron ( not stanard faces) seen along a 3 fold axis
• C011 Truncated icosahedron ( not stanard faces) seen along a 5 fold axis
• 23rd stellation of the Icosahedron
  • C012 seen along a 3 fold symmetry front and back
  • C013 seen along a 5 fold symmetry front and back
  • C014 seen along a 3 fold symmetry front
• Compound of 5 cubes
  • C015 seen along a 5 fold symmetry
  • C016 seen along a 3 fold symmetry
  • C017 seen along a 3 fold symmetry just front
• C018 great stellated dodecahedron 5 fold symmetry
• C019 small stellated dodecahedron 5 fold symmetry
• C020 snub cube seen along a 4 fold symmetry

There are also two Drawfiles:
"Nets", which contains 2 coloured nets which can be cut out and used to make into 3D models for patterns C001 and C020, so that you can find the viewpoints from which the patterns are seen.
and "ALLC", which shows all the patterns on one page.

Click here for instructions for how to make your own new pattern using PolySymm.