Catalan solid
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Deltoidal hexecontahedron
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A polyhedron that is a dual of an Archimedean solid. (A dual of a polyhedron is obtained by replacing each face with a vertex, and each vertex with a face.) Catalan solids are named after the Belgian mathematician Eugene Catalan (1814-1894) who first described them in 1865.
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Platonic solid
Johnson solid
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