shim's Skyglobe (Timur Evbatyrov)

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This shape is called Truncated Triakis Tetrahedron and is one of the near-miss Johnson solids (the pentagonal faces are slightly irregular).

Similarly to Constellation Six, this puzzle had to be fudged too, but this time the laws of geometry were on my side and the angle of deviation turned to be only 2.4° (in Constellation Six 5.4°), so the fudging is very slight and almost not noticeable. It was even possible to place regular pentagons in the centers.

Skyglobe is a higher (order?) of Constellation Six. Not in the usual sense of more parallel cutting layers, but with higher number of axes - in the same sense like Magic Octahedron is related to Pyraminx, or Megaminx to 3x3x3 cube.

I decided to make this one with 6 colors instead of 12 to halve the nightmare of solving it. The colors are arranged so that each of the 4 hexagons neighbors upon all 6 colors.

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