truncated pentagonal hexecontahedron in LEGO™

  For our paper on LEGO polyhedra, Jin Yamauchi built a truncated pentagonal hexecontahedron. This shape consists of 60 hexagons and 12 pentagons.  It is a Goldberg polyhedron.















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