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Compound of six tetrahedra with rotational freedom
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The compound of six tetrahedra with rotational freedom is a uniform polyhedron compound made of a symmetric arrangement of 6 tetrahedra, considered as antiprisms. It can be constructed by superimposing six tetrahedra within a cube, and then rotating them in pairs about the three axes that pass through the centres of two opposite cubic faces. Each tetrahedron is rotated by an equal (and opposite, within a pair) angle θ. Equivalently, a tetrahedron may be inscribed within each cube in the compound of six cubes with rotational freedom, in such a way as to preserve tetrahedral symmetry.
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Type | Uniform compound |
Index | UC1 |
Polyhedra | 6 tetrahedra |
Faces | 24 triangles |
Edges | 36 |
Vertices | 24 |
Symmetry group | tetrahedral (Td) |
Subgroup restricting to one constituent | 4-fold improper rotation (S4) |
When θ = 0, all six tetrahedra coincide. When θ is 45 degrees, the more symmetric compound of six tetrahedra (without rotational freedom) arises.
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- Compounds of six tetrahedra with rotational freedom
- File:Tetrahedron.stlθ = 0°
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References
- Skilling, John (1976), "Uniform Compounds of Uniform Polyhedra", Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, 79 (3): 447–457, doi:10.1017/S0305004100052440, MR 0397554.
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