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Tetrakis cuboctahedron

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applied to the square faces. In this construction, all the vertices are assumed to be the same distance from the center, while in general octahedral symmetry can be maintain even with the 6 order-4 vertices at a different distance from the center as the other 12.
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as the normals to alternate yellow-shaded faces in the top image correspond exactly to the tetrahedral
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with edges bisected and faces divided into subtriangles of the tetrakis cuboctahedron
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A cat toy in the shape of a tetrakis cuboctahedron projected onto a sphere
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Tetrakis cuboctahedrons usefully represent carbon atoms in a 3D
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looks like a concave tetrakis cuboctahedron with inverted
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This polyhedron can be confused with a slightly smaller
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Its name comes from a topological construction from the
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Index


Geodesic polyhedron
Faces
triangles
Edges
Vertices
Vertex configuration
Conway notation
Symmetry group
Octahedral
Dual polyhedron
chamfered cube
convex
Net



ball-and-stick model
diamond lattice
bond angles

geometry
convex polyhedron
faces
edges
vertices
truncated rhombic dodecahedron
cuboctahedron
kis operator
octahedron

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