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The 12th Stellation of the Triakis Tetrahedron
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The 109th Stellation of the Triakis Icosahedron
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The Sixth Stellation of the Triakis Octahedron
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The triakis octahedron, a Catalan solid, is the dual of the truncated cube. When stellated six times, the triakis octahedron yields this polyhedral compound with three parts. The parts themselves appear to be unusual, irregular, dipolar octahedra with eight kites for faces, each in sets of four, with their smallest angles meeting at one vertex. However, given that these vertices are, in each case, hidden under the other parts of the compound, there is uncertainty in this.
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A Variant of Kepler’s Stella Octangula
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Johannes Kepler named the compound of two tetrahedra the “stella octangula,” thus helping make it one of the best-known polyhedral compounds today. This variant uses triakis tetrahedra in place of the Platonic tetrahedra in that compound. The triakis tetrahedron is a Catalan solid, and is dual to the truncated tetrahedron.
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Compound of the Tetrahedron and the Triakis Tetrahedron
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The triakis tetrahedron is the dual of the truncated tetrahedron.
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