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Visualization of Polyhedra with Virtual Reality (VR) in A-frame

author: Paulo Henrique Siqueira - Universidade Federal do Paraná
contact: paulohscwb@gmail.com
versão em português

Dragon fractals of non-convex polyhedra

The dragon curve belongs to the family of self-similar fractal curves, which can be approximated by recursive methods. The dragon curve is probably most commonly thought of as the shape that is generated from a strip of paper repeatedly folded in half.
This work shows non-convex polyhedra forming dragon fractals, modeled for visualization in Virtual Reality.

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3D models

1. Iris octagonal antitoroid

Iris octagonal antitoroid dragon fractal
Applying the construction principle of the dragon curve with the Iris octagonal antitoroid, we obtain an iris octagonal antitoroid dragon fractal. In the first order of construction of the fractal, we construct two new iris octagonal antitoroids corresponding to one original polyhedron. In this example, we have solid representations in orders from 0 to 10.


2. Escher solid

Escher solid dragon fractal
Escher solid dragon fractal.


3. Great disdyakis dodecahedron

Great disdyakis dodecahedron dragon fractal
Great disdyakis dodecahedron dragon fractal.


4. Great dodecahedron

Great dodecahedron dragon fractal
Great dodecahedron dragon fractal.


5. Great icosahedron

Great icosahedron dragon fractal
Great icosahedron dragon fractal.


6. Great pentakis dodecahedron

Great pentakis dodecahedron dragon fractal
Great pentakis dodecahedron dragon fractal.


7. Great rhombic triacontahedron

Great rhombic triacontahedron dragon fractal
Great rhombic triacontahedron dragon fractal.


8. Great stellapentakis dodecahedron

Great stellapentakis dodecahedron dragon fractal
Great stellapentakis dodecahedron dragon fractal.


9. Great stellated dodecahedron

Great stellated dodecahedron dragon fractal
Great stellated dodecahedron dragon fractal.


10. Great triakis icosahedron

Great triakis icosahedron dragon fractal
Great triakis icosahedron dragon fractal.


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11. Great triakis octahedron

Great triakis octahedron dragon fractal
Great triakis octahedron dragon fractal.


12. Heptagrammic dipyramid

Heptagrammic dipyramid dragon fractal
Heptagrammic dipyramid dragon fractal.


13. Hexagonal antiprism trapezohedron toroid

Hexagonal antiprism trapezohedron toroid dragon fractal
Hexagonal antiprism trapezohedron toroid dragon fractal.


14. Hexagonal trapezohedron antiprism toroid

Hexagonal trapezohedron antiprism toroid dragon fractal
Hexagonal trapezohedron antiprism toroid dragon fractal.


15. Truncated great icosahedron

Truncated great icosahedron dragon fractal
Truncated great icosahedron dragon fractal.


16. Hexagonal trapezohedron toroid

Hexagonal trapezohedron toroid dragon fractal
Hexagonal trapezohedron toroid dragon fractal.


17. Icosidodecadodecahedron

Icosidodecadodecahedron dragon fractal
Icosidodecadodecahedron dragon fractal.


18. Medial inverted pentagonal hexecontahedron

Medial inverted pentagonal hexecontahedron dragon fractal
Medial inverted pentagonal hexecontahedron dragon fractal.


19. Medial rhombic triacontahedron

Medial rhombic triacontahedron dragon fractal
Medial rhombic triacontahedron dragon fractal.


20. Medial triambic icosahedron

Medial triambic icosahedron dragon fractal
Medial triambic icosahedron dragon fractal.


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21. Small stellated dodecahedron

Small stellated dodecahedron dragon fractal
Small stellated dodecahedron dragon fractal.


22. Regular tetragonal toroid

Regular tetragonal toroid dragon fractal
Regular tetragonal toroid dragon fractal.


23. Rhombicosacron

Rhombicosacron dragon fractal
Rhombicosacron dragon fractal.


24. Rhombicosahedron

Rhombicosahedron dragon fractal
Rhombicosahedron dragon fractal.


25. Small ditrigonal dodecacronic hexecontahedron

Small ditrigonal dodecacronic hexecontahedron dragon fractal
Small ditrigonal dodecacronic hexecontahedron dragon fractal.


26. Small hexacronic icositetrahedron

Small hexacronic icositetrahedron dragon fractal
Small hexacronic icositetrahedron dragon fractal.


27. Small rhombidodecacron

Small rhombidodecacron dragon fractal
Small rhombidodecacron dragon fractal.


28. Cubitruncated cuboctahedron

Cubitruncated cuboctahedron dragon fractal
Cubitruncated cuboctahedron dragon fractal.


29. Great cubicuboctahedron

Great cubicuboctahedron dragon fractal
Great cubicuboctahedron dragon fractal.


30. Great dirhombicosidodecacron

Great dirhombicosidodecacron dragon fractal
Great dirhombicosidodecacron dragon fractal.


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31. Great dodecahemidodecacron

Great dodecahemidodecacron dragon fractal
Great dodecahemidodecacron dragon fractal.


32. Great dodecicosacron

Great dodecicosacron dragon fractal
Great dodecicosacron dragon fractal.


33. Great rhombihexahedron

Great rhombihexahedron dragon fractal
Great rhombihexahedron dragon fractal.


34. Great truncated cuboctahedron

Great truncated cuboctahedron dragon fractal
Great truncated cuboctahedron dragon fractal.


35. Jessens orthogonal icosahedron

Jessens orthogonal icosahedron dragon fractal
Jessens orthogonal icosahedron dragon fractal.


36. Hexagonal tetragonal stellated toroid

Hexagonal tetragonal stellated toroid dragon fractal
Hexagonal tetragonal stellated toroid dragon fractal.


37. Octagonal tetragonal stellated toroid

Octagonal tetragonal stellated toroid dragon fractal
Octagonal tetragonal stellated toroid dragon fractal.


38. Decagonal tetragonal stellated toroid

Decagonal tetragonal stellated toroid dragon fractal
Decagonal tetragonal stellated toroid dragon fractal.


39. Enneagonal tetragonal stellated toroid

Enneagonal tetragonal stellated toroid dragon fractal
Enneagonal tetragonal stellated toroid dragon fractal.


40. Heptagonal tetragonal stellated toroid

Heptagonal tetragonal stellated toroid dragon fractal
Heptagonal tetragonal stellated toroid dragon fractal.


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41. Tetragonal regular toroid

Tetragonal regular toroid dragon fractal
Tetragonal regular toroid dragon fractal.


42. Hexagonal toroid

Hexagonal toroid dragon fractal
Hexagonal toroid dragon fractal.


43. Hexagonal toroid

Hexagonal toroid dragon fractal
Hexagonal toroid dragon fractal.


44. Hexagonal toroid

Hexagonal toroid dragon fractal
Hexagonal toroid dragon fractal.


45. Hexagonal toroid

Hexagonal toroid dragon fractal
Hexagonal toroid dragon fractal.


46. Hexagonal toroid

Hexagonal toroid dragon fractal
Hexagonal toroid dragon fractal.


47. Hexagonal toroid

Hexagonal toroid dragon fractal
Hexagonal toroid dragon fractal.


48. Hexagonal toroid

Hexagonal toroid dragon fractal
Hexagonal toroid dragon fractal.


49. Hexagonal toroid

Hexagonal toroid dragon fractal
Hexagonal toroid dragon fractal.


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Licença Creative Commons
Dragon fractals of non-convex polyhedra: visualization with Virtual Reality by Paulo Henrique Siqueira is licensed with a license Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International.

How to cite this work:

Siqueira, P.H., "Dragon fractals of non-convex polyhedra: visualization with Virtual Reality". Available in: <https://paulohscwb.github.io/polyhedra3/dragon-nonconvex/>, November 2025.



References:
Weisstein, Eric W. “Archimedean Solid” From MathWorld-A Wolfram Web Resource. http://mathworld.wolfram.com/ArchimedeanSolid.html
McCooey, D. I. “Visual Polyhedra”. http://dmccooey.com/polyhedra/