Orthogonal Projections
The truncated icosahedron has five special orthogonal projections, centered, on a vertex, on two types of edges, and two types of faces: hexagonal and pentagonal. The last two correspond to the A2 and H2 Coxeter planes.
| Centered by | Vertex | Edge 5-6 |
Edge 6-6 |
Face Hexagon |
Face Pentagon |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Image | |||||
| Projective symmetry |
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