Pentakis Dodecahedron Balloon

A tricky balloon to make that is probably a good balloon to practice your consistency skills and to hone your 3D skills--but not one to hand out / busk with. This design is based on a regular dodecahedron (12 pentagons) with all of the pentagons subdivided into 5 triangles. The shape is called a pentakis dodecahedron. A point of trivia: this is the shape that the Epcot center is based on.

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• Balloon
• twisting
• pentagons
• pentakis
• dodecahedron
• subdivision

[PAINTBA11ONLY]

youy lost me at soo..

[theAmatour]

@PAINTBA11ONLY wait'll you see the "Making a pentakis dodecahedron" video...I was lost and I was in it.

[yaxchilanitzy]

good beach ball!

[MermaidEmrald]

@jeremyevents

You lost me at polyhedron...

[PinkisKink]

It's very pretty.

[loveneetkahlon]

your fucking retarded, i should sooo pop that and the name sounds like a dinosaur.

[karenhuber]

Wow, a balloon "not worth making"???? Cool design. Drop us a line sometime--we all miss you!

[jeremyevents]

Wow Jim, that's really neat! So less specifically, it could also be called a stellated dodecahedron? Anyway you inspired me to get my hands dirty again... I spent the last three hours trying to construct my favorite polyhedron, the regular stellated icosahedron... from 10 balloons (since it has 20 odd vertices). I finally succeeded. It boiled down to a 5 on top, 5 on the bottom arrangement and the final step was to connect the two hemispheres with 10 loose ends. Fun Stuff! Regards, Jeremy

[ONOFRECEVALLOS]

Holy moly!!!!!!!!!

[HappyCabbie]

Holy freaking smurf