Here’s a fun shape – a rhombic dodecahedron made from warped hexagons and octagons. I wasn’t sure how well this was going to work, but I really like the way each face looks like a slightly folded square. A rhombic dodecahedron has twelve diamond-shaped faces, so I knew it wouldn’t look completely symmetric and it’s interesting to see how it’s turned out!

I also really like the colour of these green delicas – I don’t use green very often but glad I did this time! I was also very relieved that inclusion of a few matte delicas (the row of brown beads) did not result in disaster! I’m always a bit wary of matte beads since they seem to break very easily, but treated with a lot of care they worked out well.

I started this about 2 years ago just before a move but it got left forgotten afterwards for most of that time. Decided it was about time to finish it last summer! It’s quite similar to the Hypernova dodecahedron in some ways – both are what I’m going to call vertex-hyparhedra, because they are based on the idea of placing higher-order hypars over the vertices of a polyhedron. I think I’m going to start calling the other beadwork hyparhedra edge-hyparhedra (as they involves putting hypars over the edges), and Erik Demain’s original method face-hyparhedra (as it involves putting hypars over the faces of polyhedra).

Whatever it’s called it’s definitely an odd little shape, but I like it!