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Tag Archives: half-truncated cube

Six Hexagons and Four Triangles, As Faces of a Small Polyhedron

Posted on 27 December 2014 by RobertLovesPi
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6 hex and 4 tril

One could call this a half-truncated cube. A fully truncated cube has eight triangular faces, created by truncation, and this has half as many.

(See here for more information on Stella 4d, the software used to create this image.)

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