Snub Balloon Polyhedra

All of the snub polyhedra can be made out of the same basic double-triangle unit. The icosahedron above can also be described as the snub tetrahedron. After six units are made, the two ends of each balloon can be used to attatch them to eachother.

Two more views of the finished product:

The snub cube requires twelve of the same component, making it good for a group of twisters. Combine them in the following way to see the finished product!

The snub dodecahedron requires 30 units. With the help of many hands, we finally got one together at the 9th Gathering for Gardner!

Large numbers of the same snub unit can be used to tile the plane, or check out how to make the hyperbolic plane!