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In geometry, the octahemioctahedron or allelotetratetrahedron is a nonconvex uniform polyhedron, indexed as . It has 12 faces (8 triangles and 4 hexagons), 24
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and 12 vertices. Its vertex figure is a crossed quadrilateral. It is one of nine hemipolyhedra, with 4 hexagonal faces passing through the model center.


Orientability

It is the only hemipolyhedron that is orientable, and the only uniform polyhedron with an
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of zero (a topological torus).


Related polyhedra

It shares the vertex arrangement and edge arrangement with the cuboctahedron (having the triangular faces in common), and with the cubohemioctahedron (having the hexagonal faces in common). By Wythoff construction it has tetrahedral symmetry (Td), like the ''rhombitetratetrahedron'' construction for the cuboctahedron, with alternate triangles with inverted orientations. Without alternating triangles, it has octahedral symmetry (Oh). In this respect it is akin to the Morin surface, which has fourfold symmetry if orientation is ignored and twofold symmetry otherwise. However the octahemioctahedron has a higher degree of symmetry and is genus 1 rather than 0.


Octahemioctacron

The octahemioctacron is the dual of the octahemioctahedron, and is one of nine dual hemipolyhedra. It appears visually indistinct from the
hexahemioctacron In geometry, the cubohemioctahedron is a nonconvex uniform polyhedron, indexed as U15. It has 10 faces (6 squares and 4 regular hexagons), 24 edges and 12 vertices. Its vertex figure is a crossed quadrilateral. It is given Wythoff symbol 4 , ...
. Since the hemipolyhedra have faces passing through the center, the dual figures have corresponding vertices at infinity; properly, on the real projective plane at infinity. In Magnus Wenninger's ''Dual Models'', they are represented with intersecting prisms, each extending in both directions to the same vertex at infinity, in order to maintain symmetry. In practice the model prisms are cut off at a certain point that is convenient for the maker. Wenninger suggested these figures are members of a new class of
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figures, called ''stellation to infinity''. However, he also suggested that strictly speaking they are not polyhedra because their construction does not conform to the usual definitions. The octahemioctacron has four vertices at infinity.


See also

* Compound of five octahemioctahedra * Hemi-cube - The four vertices at infinity correspond directionally to the four vertices of this abstract polyhedron.


References

* (Page 101, Duals of the (nine) hemipolyhedra)


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