The truncated triakis octahedron, or more precisely an order-8 truncated
triakis octahedron
In geometry, a triakis octahedron (or trigonal trisoctahedron or kisoctahedronConway, Symmetries of things, p. 284) is an Archimedean dual solid, or a Catalan solid. Its dual is the truncated cube.
It can be seen as an octahedron with triangular ...
, is a convex polyhedron with 30 faces: 8 sets of 3
pentagon
In geometry, a pentagon (from the Greek πέντε ''pente'' meaning ''five'' and γωνία ''gonia'' meaning ''angle'') is any five-sided polygon or 5-gon. The sum of the internal angles in a simple pentagon is 540°.
A pentagon may be simpl ...
s arranged in an
octahedral
In geometry, an octahedron (plural: octahedra, octahedrons) is a polyhedron with eight faces. The term is most commonly used to refer to the regular octahedron, a Platonic solid composed of eight equilateral triangles, four of which meet at ea ...
arrangement, with 6
octagon
In geometry, an octagon (from the Greek ὀκτάγωνον ''oktágōnon'', "eight angles") is an eight-sided polygon or 8-gon.
A '' regular octagon'' has Schläfli symbol and can also be constructed as a quasiregular truncated square, t, whi ...
s in the gaps.
Triakis octahedron
It is constructed from taking a
triakis octahedron
In geometry, a triakis octahedron (or trigonal trisoctahedron or kisoctahedronConway, Symmetries of things, p. 284) is an Archimedean dual solid, or a Catalan solid. Its dual is the truncated cube.
It can be seen as an octahedron with triangular ...
by
truncating the order-8 vertices. This creates 6 regular octagon faces, and leaves 24 mirror-symmetric pentagons.
Octakis truncated cube
The dual of the ''order-8 truncated triakis octahedron'' is called a octakis truncated cube. It can be seen as a
truncated cube
In geometry, the truncated cube, or truncated hexahedron, is an Archimedean solid. It has 14 regular faces (6 octagonal and 8 triangular), 36 edges, and 24 vertices.
If the truncated cube has unit edge length, its dual triakis octahedron has edg ...
with
octagonal pyramids augmented to the faces.
See also
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Truncated triakis tetrahedron
In geometry, the truncated triakis tetrahedron, or more precisely an order-6 truncated triakis tetrahedron, is a convex polyhedron with 16 faces: 4 sets of 3 pentagons arranged in a tetrahedral arrangement, with 4 hexagons in the gaps.
Cons ...
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Truncated tetrakis cube
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Truncated triakis icosahedron
External links
George Hart's Polyhedron generator- "t8kO" (
Conway polyhedron notation
In geometry, Conway polyhedron notation, invented by John Horton Conway and promoted by George W. Hart, is used to describe polyhedra based on a seed polyhedron modified by various prefix operations.
Conway and Hart extended the idea of using op ...
)
Polyhedra
Truncated tilings
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