Johnson solid

A Johnson solid is a strictly convex regular-faced polyhedron that is not uniform. They are named after Norman W. Johnson, who in 1966 first listed all 92 such polyhedra. In 1969, Victor Zalgaller proved that the list was complete.

Even though they are not allowed to be uniform, Johnson solids can have just one type of polygon for their faces, as the triangular bipyramid does, or have only one vertex figure, as the elongated square gyrobicupola does.

Johnson solids only have triangles, squares, pentagons, hexagons, octagons, or decagons as faces.

Pyramids, cupolas, and the pentagonal rotunda
A pyramid is formed by connecting a point and an n-gon with a band of triangles that all meet at the point. The triangular pyramid is a tetrahedron, and is too symmetric to be a Johnson solid. A hexagonal pyramid would be planar.

A cupola is formed by connecting an n-gon and a 2n-gon with a band of alternating triangles and squares. A hexagonal cupola would be planar.

Elongations
Some solids can be "elongated" by attaching a prism to one of their faces, usually the largest face.

Gyroelongations
"Gyroelongation" adds an antiprism to said face instead of a prism.

The triangular pyramid cannot be gyroelongated because its faces would be coplanar to those of the added antiprism, and the resulting polyhedron would not be strictly convex.

Bipyramids, bicupolas, and birotundas
Two pyramids, cupolas, or rotundas can be joined together, typically by their largest face. (Joining them by another face would create a nonconvex polyhedron.)

The square bipyramid is not included because it is an octahedron, which is regular and therefore not a Johnson solid.

Bicupolas, birotundas, and the pentagonal cupola-rotunda compound can be aligned in two different ways, with the "top" faces (the ones parallel to the "base") either aligned with one another or 180° out of alignment. When aligned, the compound is called "ortho-," and when out of alignment, the compound is called "gyro-."

The gyrobifastigium seems out of place here until thought of as a "dyadic gyrobicupola." The "dyadic cupola" is just a triangular prism, thought of as turned on its side; a band of triangles and squares joining a 2-gon (dyad) and a 4-gon (square).

The triangular gyrobicupola and the pentagonal gyrobirotunda are not included because they are the uniform cuboctahedron and icosidodecahedron, respectively.

Elongations and gyroelongations of the pairs
Elongation and gyroelongation of the above compounds places the prism or antiprism in between the two halves.

The elongated square orthobicupola is not included because it is a uniform small rhombicuboctahedron. The gyroelongated pentagonal bipyramid is not included because it is a regular icosahedron.

As before, the triangular bipyramid cannot be gyroelongated because some adjacent faces would have a 180° dihedral angle.

Augmentations
Polyhedra can be "augmented" by adding pyramids or cupolae to their faces. However, too many augmentations will make the solid nonconvex, giving each polyhedron an upper limit of possible augmentations. Most polyhedra do not admit augmentations (while maintaining strict convexity).

A pair of augmentations is referred to as "para-" if on parallel faces of a polyhedron, and as "meta-" if not. If multiple augmentations on a polyhedron can only be arranged in one way (while maintaining convexity of the resulting polyhedron), like in the biaugmented truncated cube, no such clarification is needed.

The various possible "augmented square prisms" are not shown here because they would be the same as elongated square (bi)pyramids, which have already been covered.

Diminishings
"Diminishing" is the opposite of augmenting: it removes one or more pyramids or cupolae from a solid, leaving behind regular polygonal face(s). A "diminished icosahedron" would be a gyroelongated pentagonal pyramid, and a "parabidiminished icosahedron" would be a pentagonal antiprism.

Gyrations and diminishings of small rhombicosidodecahedron
A solid that can be diminished can also be "gyrated" if the diminishing would remove a cupola (or rotunda). Gyrating a pyramid would not change the solid. Gyrating a small rhombicuboctahedron would produce an elongated square gyrobicupola, and diminishing it would produce an elongated square cupola.

The elementary Johnson solids
All Johnson solids up to this point were made by "cutting and pasting" pieces of Platonic solids, Archimedean solids, prisms, and antiprisms. The last few Johnson solids do not result from such simple manipulations, although some of them have subtle relationships with other solids.