This solid, also known as the great rhombicuboctahedron, and the truncated icosidodecahedron, can be used to build many other things. In addition to the elongated ring of eight above, for example, there’s this octagonal prism.

Remember the elongated ring at the top of this post? This pic, directly above, is of a ring of four of those rings.

And, yes, that’s a (non-great) rhombcuboctahedron made of great rhombcuboctahedra. Here it is again, with a different color-scheme.

For the last of these constructions, eight more great rhombcuboctahedra are added to the figure in the two posts above, which is also returned to its original color-configuration. These eight new polyhedra have positions which correspond to the corners of a cube.

Manipulating polyhedra in this manner is easy with Stella 4d, the program I used to do all of this. You may buy it, and/or try a free trial version first, at www.software3d.com/Stella.php.