Two Six-Part Polyhedral Compounds

I stumbled across this compound the other day, while playing around with Stella 4d: Polyhedron Navigator (available here).

At first, I thought this was a compound of six tetrahedra, but careful examination reveals that the tetrahedra are missing parts along the middle of some of their edges. I looked up the canonical compound of six tetrahedra in Stella‘s library, and here it is. As you can see, it’s quite similar — but it does have those “missing” pieces added.

5 thoughts on “Two Six-Part Polyhedral Compounds

  1. I like it better this way than with the “Missing Parts”. Can you post the templates for the quadrilaterals and for the kites? I would like to build it.

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