This has many more different polygons than most of my tessellations, so I’m including a color key.
Using Stella 4d (available here), I put this tessellation on the octagonal faces of a truncated octahedron, while hiding the triangular faces. The tessellation itself was made using Geometer’s Sketchpad.
If you like this, please look at the post immediately before this one, also — it’s what gave me the idea for the tessellation above.
The last post here featured the small cubicuboctahedron (one of the uniform solids, a group of polyhedra I’m still learning), so naturally, next, I went looking for the great cubicuboctahedron. Here it is:
This polyhedron comes with a long and interesting stellation-series. I plucked out the ones I liked best, and they are shown below.
I made these virtual models using Stella 4d, which you can try for free at http://www.software3d.com/Stella.php.
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