Two version of Durer's polyhedra

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Duerer's Polyhedral Marvel from "Melancholia" is widely perceived as a cube stretched along three perpendicular axes and truncated by two planes, one above and one below its center. As this transformation progresses, an angle on each face, known as the apex, steadily drops from 90 degrees. Thing:105351 exhibits this very phenomenon. Here are two additional iterations of Duerer's Polyhedral Marvel - McCooey's Version - http://dmccooey.com/polyhedra/Durer.html, which features an apex angle of 77.14 degrees, and Wolfram's Version - http://mathworld.wolfram.com/DuerersSolid.html, with a slightly different apex angle of 72 degrees. This exercise beautifully showcases the power of OpenSCAD code. By simply following the recipe provided on the Wolfram web page, a concise few lines of OpenSCAD code can be crafted, easily modifiable to generate other versions of this intriguing polyhedra.