Compound of the Rhombic Dodecahedron and the Truncated Cube

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Compound of the Rhombic Dodecahedron and the Truncated Cube

Software used: see www.software3d.com/stella.php

Compound of Three Rhombic Prisms

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Compound of Three Rhombic Prisms

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Base/Dual Compound: The Rhombcuboctahedron and the Strombic Icositetrahedron

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Base/Dual Compound:  The Rhombcuboctahedron and the Strombic Icositetrahedron

Alternate names for components of this compound are the rhombicuboctahedron and the kited icositetrahedron.

For more information on the software used to produce this image, please visit http://www.software3d.com/stella.php.

Octahedral Compound of Three Rectangular Prisms

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Octahedral Compound of Three Rectangular Prisms

Created with Stella 4d (site to try it: http://www.software3d.com/stella.php).

Duality

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Duality

Created with Stella 4d (site to try it: http://www.software3d.com/stella.php).

Compound of the Rhombic Dodecahedron and Its Third Stellation

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Compound of the Rhombic Dodecahedron and Its Third Stellation

One of the coolest things about the software I use to make these .gifs is the accidental discoveries. I didn’t even know this compound was possible until I stumbled upon it with Stella 4d. You can try this software at http://www.software3d.com/stella.php.

Compound of Four Parallelopipeds

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Compound of Four Parallelopipeds

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Compound of the Dodecahedron and Its Dual, the Icosahedron

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Compound of the Dodecahedron and Its Dual, the Icosahedron

Software credit: see http://www.software3d.com/stella.php (free trial download available)

Compound of Three Rectangular Solids

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Compound of Three Rectangular Solids

Created using software found at http://www.software3d.com/stella.php

The Hyperspace Analogue of the Stella Octangula

The simplest polyhedron is the tetrahedron, and it is self-dual. The compound of two tetrahedra puts these duals together, and is most often called the Stella Octangula, a name Johannes Kepler gave it in the early 17th Century.

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In hyperspace, or 4-space, the simplest polychoron is the pentachoron, or 5-cell. Like the tetrahedron in 3-space, it is also self-dual. Here is the compound of two of them: hyperspace’s version of the Stella Octangula.

Compound of 1-Pen, 5-cell, Pentachoron and dual

Website to find the software used to make these images:  www.software3d.com/stella.php