Five Variants of the Compound of Two Tetrahedra

This is the compound of two tetrahedra, also known as Johannes Kepler’s Stella Octangula.

I found the five variations of this polyhedral compound shown below, located deep within the stellation-series of the great rhombicuboctahedron.

These .gif images were all made using Stella 4d, a program you can try for free at http://www.software3d.com/Stella.php.

The Truncated Stella Octangula

This can also be called the compound of two truncated tetrahedra.

Compound of Two truncated tetrahedra

This image was created using Stella 4d, which you can try at this website.

Two Three Six Twelve

tess 6 4 3 4 variation

Nine Times Two Is Eighteen

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Seven Times Two Is Fourteen