In geometry, the triakis icosahedron is an Archimedean dual solid, or a Catalan solid, with 60 isosceles triangle faces. Its dual is the truncated dodecahedron. It has also been called the kisicosahedron. It was first depicted, in a non-convex form with equilateral triangle faces, by Leonardo da Vinci in Luca Pacioli's Divina proportione, where it was named the icosahedron elevatum. The capsid of the Hepatitis A virus has the shape of a triakis icosahedron.
Non-convex triakis icosahedron drawn by Leonardo da Vinci in Luca Pacioli's Divina proportione
Image: Triakisicosahedron
In mathematics, a Catalan solid, or Archimedean dual, is a polyhedron that is dual to an Archimedean solid. There are 13 Catalan solids. They are named after the Belgian mathematician Eugène Catalan, who first described them in 1865.
Image: Triakistetrahedron
Image: Triakisoctahedron
Image: Disdyakisdodecahedron
Image: Triakisicosahedron