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Explorations in Stereographic projection

Explorations in Stereographic projection
I have not posted anything on Behance for a while I apologise, I've still been creating and noodling around with ideas. A couple of months ago I re-explored an idea I first came across in around 2014/2015, where a mathematician was using 3D printing to visualise higher dimensional Mathematics (see: http://www.3dprintmath.com/). The process blew my mind at the time and really wanted to make something similar. Sergerman (the Mathematician behind this research) uses a Sphere as the initial geometry, I wondered if it was possible to use other Spheroidal geometry, or how it would work on other euclidean or compound geometric primitives.  
This is the results of my research.... 100% possible to encode a 2D image onto the surface of a cuboctahedron:
Rhombododeca:
This is a cubocta variant, I'm unsure it's a "real" shape, I made it by accident, looks cool though:
One of the original tests before starting to explore different geometry: 
Explorations in Stereographic projection
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