A Hollow Octahedron Made of Rhombic Dodecahedra, with Variations

hOLLOW oCTAHEDRON mADE OF Rhombic Dodeca

The original polyhedral cluster I built using Stella 4d (available here) is above. Below is its 29th stellation.

hOLLOW oCTAHEDRON mADE OF Rhombic Dodeca 29th stellation

And the 30th stellation, as well:

hOLLOW oCTAHEDRON mADE OF Rhombic Dodeca 30th stellation

This is the original polyhedral cluster’s dual:

hOLLOW oCTAHEDRON mADE OF Rhombic Dodeca dual

The next image is a variant of the original polyhedral cluster, rendered with only its edges, but not faces or vertices, visible. I wish I could remember exactly how I made this variant, but I simply cannot recall the exact methods I used.

hollow octahedron variant

This is the dual of the polyhedron shown immediately above, rendered in the same manner:

hollow object made of cubes -- dual of hollow octahedron variantThis is a compound of the two dual polyhedra right before this sentence.

hollow octahedron variant compound of it and dual

Two Compounds of Six Tetrahedra Each

compound of six elongated tetrahedra

In the image above, which I stumbled upon using Stella 4d (available here), the tetrahedra are elongated. If they are regular, instead, the same arrangement looks very different:

Tetrahedra 6

Selections from the Stellation-Series of the Strombic Icositetrahedron, Including Some Polyhedral Compounds

The strombic icositetrahedron is the dual of the rhombcuboctahedron, and has many interesting polyhedra in its stellation-series. Here are a few of them, starting with the 10th stellation.

10th stellation of Strombic Icositetra

Here’s the strombic icositetrahedron’s 16th stellation:

16th stellation of Strombic Icositetra

And the 19th:

19th stellation of Strombic IcositetraAnd the 21st:

21st stellation of Strombic Icositetra

And the 23rd:

23rd stellation of Strombic Icositetra

And the 25th:

25th stellation of Strombic Icositetra

And the 26th:

26th stellation of Strombic IcositetraNext, the 28th stellation. It isn’t colored as the other stellations above are colored, simply because it is also a compound of six off-center square-based pyramids.

28th stellation of Strombic Icositetra

The 34th stellation is even more interesting. It’s a symmetrical four-part compound, but the component polyhedra have irregular faces, and are much less symmetrical than the compound itself.

34th stellation of Strombic Icositetra

Here is the 37th stellation in this series:

37th stellation of Strombic Icositetra

And the 43rd:

43rd stellation of Strombic Icositetra

And the 44th:

44th stellation of Strombic IcositetraThe 59th stellation in this series is an octahedron, with each face excavated by short, triangle-based pyramids. It can also be seen as a compound of three shortened square-based dipyramids, but coloring it as a compound proved difficult, so it is presented here in rainbow-color mode:

59th stellation of Strombic Icositetra

Here’s the 61st stellation:

61st stellation of Strombic Icositetra

And the 68th:

68th stellation of Strombic Icositetra

And the 71st:

71st stellation of Strombic Icositetra

And the (quite different from the 71st) 72nd stellation:

72nd stellation of Strombic Icositetra

And the 73rd:

73rd stellation of Strombic Icositetra

And, finally, the 74th, which is an interesting two-part compound.

74th stellation of Strombic Icositetra

And the 79th:

79th stellation of Strombic Icositetra

And the 82nd stellation:

82nd stellation of Strombic Icositetra

The last one I’m showing here is the 93rd stellation, another four-part compound.

93rd stellation of Strombic Icositetra

All these images were created using Stella 4d:  Polyhedron Navigator, which you may try for yourself at http://www.software3d.com/Stella.php.

Compound of Three Eight-Faced Trapezohedra

compound of three eight-faced trapezohedra and 6th stellation of triakis octahedron

I made this using Stella 4d, which you can try right here. In addition to being a compound of trapezohedra, it is also the sixth stellation of the triakis octahedron, the dual of the truncated cube.

Four-Part Compound of Thin Parallelopipeds

four-part compound of thin parallelopipeds

I made this using Stella 4d:  Polyhedron Navigator. You may try this program for free at http://www.software3d.com/Stella.php.

More Polyhedra, Including Some Compounds, from the Stellation-Series of the Tetrakis Cube

Tetrakishexa stellation

The next one is a compound of eight off-center pyramids. By this point, I had gone so far into the stellation-series (a search I began when preparing the post before this one) that I had lost count.

compound of eight off-center pyramids

This one is a compound of three short square-based dipyramids:

compound of three short square dipyramids

This one, according to Stella 4d, is a compound of three parts, but I can’t quite figure out what the parts are!

more from the stellation series of the tetrakis cube

Here is another “mystery compound,” this one with two parts:

bizarre two-part compound

Stella 4d, which I used to make these, may be tried here.

Two Compounds of Dipyramids from the Stellation-Series of the Tetrakis Cube

The 16th stellation of the tetrakis cube, the dual of the truncated octahedron, is a compound of three elongated octahedra, or square dipyramids:

Tetrakishexa

The 65th stellation of this same polyhedron is of another compound of dipyramids, but these are triangular dipyramids with obtuse faces, and there are four of them:

Tetrakishexa stellation 4

I generated both of these images with Stella 4d:  Polyhedron Navigator, available right here.

The Cuboctahedron / Icosidodecahedron Compound

Icosidodeca + Cubocta

I made this rotating .gif file using Stella 4d. You can try this software for itself at http://www.software3d.com/Stella.php.

The Cube / Icosahedron Compound

icosa and cube

I made this rotating .gif file using Stella 4d. You can try this software for itself at http://www.software3d.com/Stella.php.

The Rhombic Dodecahedron / Rhombic Triacontahedron Compound

Icosidodeca + Cubocta dualStella 4d has this in its built-in library. You can try it at http://www.software3d.com/Stella.php.