You can read a bit about the companyâs history in this article, but I canât point you to the companyâs web site for the simple reason that it doesnât have one. Yes, as amazing as this is, here in mid-2009 Arca Swiss lacks a web site, one of the few companies of any size in the photographic industry without one.
A pyritohedron is a dodecahedron with pyritohedral (T h) symmetry. Like the regular dodecahedron, it has twelve identical pentagonal faces, with three meeting in each of the 20 vertices. However, the pentagons are not constrained to be regular, and the underlying atomic arrangement has no true fivefold symmetry axes.
A dodecahedron is any polyhedron with twelve faces, but usually a regular dodecahedron is meant: a Platonic solid composed of twelve regular pentagonal faces, with three meeting at each vertex. It has twenty (20) vertices and thirty (30) edges. Its dual polyhedron is the icosahedron.