Decagram (geometry)


In geometry, a decagram is a 10-point star polygon. There is one regular decagram, containing the vertices of a regular decagon, but connected by every third point. Its Schläfli symbol is.
The name decagram combines a numeral prefix, ', with the Greek suffix '. The -gram suffix derives from γραμμῆς meaning a line.

Regular decagram

For a regular decagram with unit edge lengths, the proportions of the crossing points on each edge are as shown below.

Applications

Decagrams have been used as one of the decorative motifs in girih tiles.

Related figures

A regular decagram is a 10-sided polygram, represented by symbol, containing the same vertices as regular decagon. Only one of these polygrams, , forms a regular star polygon, but there are also three ten-vertex polygrams which can be interpreted as regular compounds:
can be seen as the 2D equivalent of the 3D compound of dodecahedron and icosahedron and 4D compound of 120-cell and 600-cell; that is, the compound of two pentagonal polytopes in their respective dual positions.
can be seen as the two-dimensional equivalent of the three-dimensional compound of small stellated dodecahedron and great dodecahedron or compound of great icosahedron and great stellated dodecahedron through similar reasons. It has six four-dimensional analogues, with two of these being compounds of two self-dual star polytopes, like the pentagram itself; the compound of two great 120-cells and the compound of two grand stellated 120-cells. A full list can be seen at Polytope compound#Compounds with duals.
Deeper truncations of the regular pentagon and pentagram can produce intermediate star polygon forms with ten equally spaced vertices and two edge lengths that remain vertex-transitive.