truncated icosahedron in LEGO™

 For our paper on LEGO polyhedra, Jin Yamauchi built a truncated icosahedron. This shape consists of 20 hexagons and 12 pentagons.  It is a Goldberg polyhedron.


multicolored C60 using 1x4 Lego tiles and plates


Lego fullerene models make interesting shadows


truncated icosahedron flanked by a dog toy and a soccer ball pillow




Our Lego model flanked by Polydron and Zometool models



The truncated icosahedron is the underlying shape of the buckyball

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