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.
I stumbled across this while playing around with my favorite polyhedron-manipulation tool, Stella 4d. You can try this program for free at http://www.software3d.com/Stella.php.
The tetrahemihexahedron is one of the uniform polyhedra. Its faces are four equilateral triangles, as well as three squares. The squares are shown in yellow in the model above, and pass through the center of the polyhedron. It has tetrahedral symmetry, and seven faces in total. I know of no other polyhedra which have seven faces and any form of polyhedral symmetry.
If you stellate this polyhedron once, you get a tetrahedron.
The tetrahemihexahedron only has two stellations, and I really like the second one, shown below.
I made these models using Stella 4d: Polyhedron Navigator, which you can try for free at this website: http://www.software3d.com/Stella.php.
I made this polyhedron using Stella 4d, which you are invited to try for free at http://www.software3d.com/Stella.php.
In the last post here, I displayed a chiral symmetrohedron derived from the snub dodecahedron, and today I am presenting its “little brother,” which is derived from the snub cube. Both models were created using the “morph duals by truncation” function of Stella 4d: Polyhedron Navigator, a program you can download and try, for free, at this website. This newer solid contains six squares, 32 equilateral triangles, and 24 irregular pentagons, for a total of 62 faces.
This symmetrohedron was derived from the snub dodecahedron. It contains twelve regular pentagons and sixty irregular pentagons, as well as eighty equilateral triangles, for a total of 152 faces. I made it using Stella 4d (with the “morph duals by truncation” function), a program you can download and try, for free, at this website.
I made this using Stella 4d, which you can try for yourself right here.
This solid has all the faces of the great rhombicosidodecahedron, plus 120 scalene triangles. I made it using Stella 4d, which you can try for free right here.
Here’s Johonnes Kepler’s Stella Octangula — also known as the compound of two tetrahedra.
What follows are ten variants of this solid, all made using Stella 4d: Polyhedron Navigator, which you can try for free at http://www.software3d.com/Stella.php.
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