Author Archives: Glen Whitney

Here’s a rhombic triacontahedron built as a compound of dodecahedra joined face to face that I designed and led a public building of for the 2016 World Science Festival in New York City.

Here’s an installation I designed for the National Museum of Mathematics for the 2016 USA Science and Engineering Festival in Washington DC. The only construction materials are dowels, off-the-shelf end caps, and zip ties. It’s not actually a fully elevated icosidodecahedron; only the pentagonal faces are elevated.

A picture from the top of the Flatiron Building in Manhattan, NY of an installation I designed for the National Museum of Mathematics for an observation of the winter solstice. It was geometrically appropriate, in a way, because the highest angle the sun reaches in the sky on the winter solstice is quite close to the vertex angle of the regular heptagram approximated by the arrangement of lights in the photo.