fun with deltahedra

I got a new toy: 94 rods with a magnet at each end, and 36 steel balls. (This kit is called Mega Magz, but I think I’ve seen similar kits under other names.) With these balls and rods, I build selected examples from my catalog of fullerenes, or rather their duals: what you get if you exchange vertices with faces. I wish I could show you my latest construction, which uses 28 balls and 78 sticks in tetrahedral symmetry (but chiral); I even managed to arrange it so that each of the seven colors is used only for symmetry-equivalent edges.

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