Disdyakis dodecahedron
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| Type | Catalan |
| Face polygon | scalene triangle |
| Faces | 48 |
| Edges | 72 |
| Vertices | 26 = 6 + 8 + 12 |
| Face configuration | 4,6,8 |
| Symmetry group | octahedral (Oh) |
| Dual polyhedron | truncated cuboctahedron |
| Properties | convex, face-uniform |
A disdyakis dodecahedron, or hexakis octahedron, is the Catalan solid whose Archimedean dual is the truncated cuboctahedron. As such it is face uniform but with irregular face polygons. It looks a bit like an inflated rhombic dodecahedron — if one replaces each face of the rhombic dodecahedron with a single vertex and four triangles in a regular fashion one ends up with a disdyakis dodecahedron.
See also
External link
- Disdyakis dodecahedron (http://mathworld.wolfram.com/DisdyakisDodecahedron.html) - MathWorld.com