Some Variants of Kepler’s Stella Octangula

The Stella Octangula is also known as the compound of two tetrahedra, which works well because the tetrahedron is self-dual. All of these are also two-part compounds, with varying amounts of similarity to the Stella Octangula. The first one is also the 26th stellation of the triakis octahedron, one of the Catalan solids.

compound and 26th stellation of triakis octahedron

All of these were made using Stella 4d, which may be tried or purchased at http://www.software3d.com/Stella.php.

odd compound

SO var d

SO var sdd

SO variant

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