This is an octahedron which has had short pyramids excavated from each of its faces. If the pyramids are made taller, their vertices coincide at the octahedron’s center. At that point, unlike in the figure above, the polyhedron’s volume reaches zero — turning it into a special type of polyhedron called a nulloid:
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Software credit: I made these images using Stella 4d, which you can find at http://www.software3d.com/Stella.php.
A nulloid is a polyhedron with zero volume.
See http://www.software3d.com/stella.php for the software used to produce this image.
Like all nulloids, this has zero volume. It may be seen as six intersecting, regular decagons. Some consider nulloids a subset of polyhedra; others do not.
I made this using Stella 4d, which you can find at http://www.software3d.com/stella.php.
Like all nulloids, this has zero volume. It may be seen as four intersecting, regular hexagons. Some consider nulloids a subset of polyhedra; others do not.
I made this using Stella 4d, which you can find at http://www.software3d.com/stella.php.
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