Compound of five stellated truncated cubes

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Compound of five stellated truncated cubes
Type	Uniform compound
Index	UC58
Polyhedra	5 stellated truncated cubes
Faces	40 triangles, 30 octagrams
Edges	180
Vertices	120
Symmetry group	icosahedral (Ih)
Subgroup restricting to one constituent	pyritohedral (Th)

This uniform polyhedron compound is a composition of 5 stellated truncated cubes, formed by star-truncating each of the cubes in the compound of 5 cubes.

[edit] Cartesian coordinates

Cartesian coordinates for the vertices of this compound are all the cyclic permutations of

(±(2−√2), ±√2, ±(2−√2))

(±τ, ±(τ⁻¹−τ⁻¹√2), ±(2τ−1−τ√2))

(±1, ±(τ⁻²+τ⁻¹√2), ±(τ²−τ√2))

(±(1−√2), ±(−τ⁻²+√2), ±(τ²−√2))

(±(τ−τ√2), ±(−τ⁻¹), ±(2τ−1−τ⁻¹√2))

where τ = (1+√5)/2 is the golden ratio (sometimes written φ).

[edit] References

• John Skilling, Uniform Compounds of Uniform Polyhedra, Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, Vol. 79, pp. 447-457, 1976.