Two Windowed Ornaments

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Two roughly spherical ornaments showcase intricately designed windows that reveal their inner mechanisms. Each interior boasts a distinct outline of a cat; one featuring a solitary feline figure, while the other displays three smaller images positioned at the corners of an equilateral triangle. Both ornaments share a common ancestry - they are derived from the same polyhedron, a Truncated Rhombicosidodecahedron, found on the visual polyhedra web site. A significant connection lies in the fact that faces present in one ornament are absent in the second, and vice versa. The Truncated Rhombicosidodecahedron boasts an impressive array of 12 regular decagons, 30 octagons, 20 regular hexagons, and 60 isosceles trapezoids as its constituent faces. In the first ornament, the decagonal and hexagonal faces remained unadorned; in contrast, the second ornament omitted its octagonal faces altogether. Windows were created by strategically omitting additional faces, leaving behind a canvas of decorated stars, snowflakes, and a feline image. OpenScad code is available for examination.