Bob Hearn had the cunning idea to produce a magnetic set of all the cells that compose all the stellations of the Icosahedron. His monochrome components were designed in Fusion 360. In order to obtain stellations which are consistently face-coloured, I created a workflow to produce pieces which are multicoloured individually. For each piece type, a vZome design is transformed by a perl program into an OpenSCAD file for all multicoloured patterns which are needed. This post presents the multicoloured magnetic set for the stellations of the Rhombic Dodecahedron.
A Rhombic Dodecahedron only has three stellations. The monochrome versions of all stellations can be assembled from copies of a single rhombic pyramid. I prefered to implement the four-coloured version proposed by John Ede and George Hart: every permutation of both three and four colours occurs at one vertex.
The first stellation is similar to the compound of three octahedra, with reduced altitudes of the square dipyramids:
