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Daily Archives: 18 April 2015

Two Polyhedral Compounds: the Dodecahedron / Truncated Octahedron, and Its Dual, the Icosahedron / Tetrakis Cube

Posted on 18 April 2015 by RobertLovesPi
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Compound of Trunc Octa and Dodeca

That’s the compound of the dodecahedron and the truncated octahedron above. Shown next is its dual, the compound of the icosahedron and the tetrakis cube. Both compounds were made using Stella 4d: Polyhedron Navigator, which you may try here.

Compound of tetrakis cube and icosa

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