Compound of twenty octahedra

Compound of twenty octahedra
Type Uniform compound
Index UC14
Polyhedra 20 octahedra
Faces 40+120 triangles
Edges 240
Vertices 60
Symmetry group icosahedral (Ih)
Subgroup restricting to one constituent 6-fold improper rotation (S6)

The compound of twenty octahedra is a uniform polyhedron compound. It's composed of a symmetric arrangement of 20 octahedra (considered as triangular antiprisms). It is a special case of the compound of 20 octahedra with rotational freedom, in which pairs of octahedral vertices coincide.

3D model of a compound of twenty octahedra

Related polyhedra edit

This compound shares its edge arrangement with the great dirhombicosidodecahedron, the great disnub dirhombidodecahedron, and the compound of twenty tetrahemihexahedra.

It may be constructed as the exclusive or of the two enantiomorphs of the great snub dodecicosidodecahedron.

 
Convex hull
 
Great snub dodecicosidodecahedron
 
Great dirhombicosidodecahedron
 
Great disnub dirhombidodecahedron
 
Compound of twenty octahedra
 
Compound of twenty tetrahemihexahedra

See also edit

References edit

  • Skilling, John (1976), "Uniform Compounds of Uniform Polyhedra", Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, 79: 447–457, doi:10.1017/S0305004100052440, MR 0397554.