Compound of four triangular prisms
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| Compound of four triangular prisms | |
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| Type | Uniform compound |
| Index | UC30 |
| Polyhedra | 4 triangular prisms |
| Faces | 8 triangles, 12 squares |
| Edges | 36 |
| Vertices | 24 |
| Symmetry group | chiral octahedral (O) |
| Subgroup restricting to one constituent | 3-fold dihedral (D3) |
This uniform polyhedron compound is a chiral symmetric arrangement of 4 triangular prisms, aligned with the axes of three-fold rotational symmetry of an octahedron.
[edit] Cartesian coordinates
Cartesian coordinates for the vertices of this compound are all the even permutations of
- (±1, ±(1+√2), ±(1−√2))
with an even number of minuses in the '±' choices, together with all the odd permutations with an odd number of minuses in the '±' choices.
[edit] References
- John Skilling, Uniform Compounds of Uniform Polyhedra, Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, Vol. 79, pp. 447-457, 1976.
