Near-miss Johnson solid

Near-miss Johnson solid

In geometry, a near-miss Johnson solid is a strictly convex polyhedron, where every face is a regular or nearly regular polygon, and excluding the 5 Platonic solids, the 13 Archimedean solids, the infinite set of prisms, the infinite set of antiprisms, and the 92 Johnson solids.

The set of near-misses is not exactly defined, but can be loosely defined as convex polyhedra that can be approximately constructed from rigid regular polygon faces as a physical model. Because of the "fuzziness" of this definition, the exact number of near-misses is not known.

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Examples

These four convex polyhedra can be modelled physically with regular polygon faces with various degrees of adjustment. If they could be built exactly, they would be Johnson solids.

Name Image verfs V E F F3 F4 F5 F6 F8 F10 Symmetry
Truncated triakis tetrahedron Truncated triakis tetrahedron.png 4 (5.5.5)
24 (5.5.6)
28 42 16     12 4     Td
-- Dh3 symmetry dodecahedral nearmiss johnson.png 6 (5.5.5)
9 (3.5.3.5)
12 (3.3.5.5)
27 51 26 14   12       D3h
Tetrated dodecahedron Tetrated Dodecahedron.gif 4 (5.5.5)
12 (3.5.3.5)
12 (3.3.5.5)
28 54 28 16   12       Td
-- Hexpenttri near-miss Johnson solid.png 12 (5.5.6)
6 (3.5.3.5)
12 (3.3.5.5)
30 54 26 12   12 2     D6h

Possible vertex figures

The near-misses, like all convex polyhedra made of regular polygons, have a countably infinite set of vertex figures that they can use, defined by a positive angle defect. A secondary constraint for the triples requires the angle sum of the two smaller polygons to exceed the angle of the larger one.

The set of polygons that can create convex vertex figures include:

  • Triples p.q.r:
    • 3.3.(3-5), 3.4.(4-11), 3.5.(5-7), 3.6.(6+), 3.7.(7-41), 3.8.(8-23), 3.9.(9-17), 3.10.(10-14), 3.11.(11-13), 4.4.(4+), 4.5.(5-19), 4.6.(6-11), 4.7.(7-9), 5.5.(5-9), 5.6.(6-7).
  • Quadruples p.q.r.s:
    • 3.3.3.(3+), 3.3.4.(4-11), 3.3.5.(5-7), 3.4.4.(4-5)
  • Quintuples p.q.r.s.t:
    • 3.3.3.3.(3-5)

NOTE:

  • (a-b) means any polygon for which the number of sides is between a and b inclusive.
  • (n+) means any polygon with n or more sides.

Permutations of these polygon lists further extend possible vertex figures.

Each vertex figure has an angle defect, and a convex polyhedron will have a combined angle defect of 720 degrees.

These vertex figures and angle defect sums constrain the possible existence of convex polyhedra of regular or near regular polygon faces.

See Vertex configuration for the convex vertex figures used in the regular and semiregular solids.

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