These compounds differ in the relative sizes of their components. I made all three using Stella 4d, which you can try for free right here.
Three Different Compounds of the Octahedron and the First Stellation of the Rhombic Dodecahedron
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Three Two-Part Compounds Similar to Kepler’s “Stella Octangula”
I made these using Stella 4d: Polyhedron Navigator. You can give this software a try, right here, for free.
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.
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