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Disdyakis dodecahedron
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<h2 id="symmetry">Symmetry</h2> <p>It has Oh <a href="/facts/Octahedral_symmetry/qLqhYxgm">octahedral symmetry</a>. Its collective edges represent the reflection planes of the symmetry. It can also be seen in the corner and mid-edge triangulation of the regular cube and octahedron, and rhombic dodecahedron. </p> <table><tbody><tr><td>Disdyakisdodecahedron</td><td><a href="/facts/Deltoidal_icositetrahedron/bu6NBY9X">Deltoidalicositetrahedron</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Rhombic_dodecahedron/X3npAlmr">Rhombicdodecahedron</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Hexahedron/UzruYxzd">Hexahedron</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Octahedron/G38q92xW">Octahedron</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <table><tbody><tr><th colspan="4"><a href="/facts/Spherical_polyhedron/jaglysFR">Spherical polyhedron</a></th></tr><tr><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>(see rotating model)</td><td colspan="3"><a href="/facts/Orthographic_projection/L3Cv9kYD">Orthographic projections</a> from 2-, 3- and 4-fold axes</td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The edges of a spherical disdyakis dodecahedron belong to 9 <a href="/facts/Great_circle/x4fq6eNm">great circles</a>. Three of them form a spherical octahedron (gray in the images below). The remaining six form three square <a href="/facts/Hosohedron/t2dyV0bW">hosohedra</a> (red, green and blue in the images below). They all correspond to <a href="/facts/Reflection_(mathematics)/5JHWnrql">mirror planes</a> - the former in <a href="/facts/Dihedral_symmetry_in_three_dimensions/xNRpsIAF">dihedral</a> [2,2], and the latter in <a href="/facts/Tetrahedral_symmetry/hIVlf9pu">tetrahedral</a> [3,3] symmetry. </p> <table><tbody><tr><th colspan="4"><a href="/facts/Stereographic_projection/oVyMrWqR">Stereographic projections</a></th></tr><tr><td rowspan="2"></td><th>2-fold</th><th>3-fold</th><th>4-fold</th></tr><tr><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr></tbody></table> <h2 id="cartesian-coordinates">Cartesian coordinates</h2> <p>Let a = 1 1 + 2 2 ≈ 0.261 , b = 1 2 + 3 2 ≈ 0.160 , c = 1 3 + 3 2 ≈ 0.138 {\displaystyle ~a={\frac {1}{1+2{\sqrt {2}}}}~{\color {Gray}\approx 0.261},~~b={\frac {1}{2+3{\sqrt {2}}}}~{\color {Gray}\approx 0.160},~~c={\frac {1}{3+3{\sqrt {2}}}}~{\color {Gray}\approx 0.138}} . Then the <a href="/facts/Cartesian_coordinates/lkTqvMmB">Cartesian coordinates</a> for the vertices of a disdyakis dodecahedron centered at the origin are: </p><p>● <a href="/facts/Permutation/JSw9ukmv">permutations</a> of (±a, 0, 0) (vertices of an octahedron) ● permutations of (±b, ±b, 0) (vertices of a <a href="/facts/Cuboctahedron/hD7p0Mem">cuboctahedron</a>) ● (±c, ±c, ±c) (vertices of a cube) </p> <table><tbody><tr><th colspan="1"><a href="/facts/Convex_hull/D4Id3JDS">Convex hulls</a></th></tr><tr><td>Combining an octahedron, cube, and cuboctahedron to form the disdyakis dodecahedron. The convex hulls for these vertices<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a> scaled by 1 / a {\displaystyle 1/a} result in Cartesian coordinates of unit <a href="/facts/Circumradius/RafYT4am">circumradius</a>, which are visualized in the figure below:</td></tr><tr><td rowspan="1"></td></tr></tbody></table> <h2 id="dimensions">Dimensions</h2> <p>If its smallest edges have length <i>a</i>, its surface area and volume are </p> A = 6 7 783 + 436 2 a 2 V = 1 7 3 ( 2194 + 1513 2 ) a 3 {\displaystyle {\begin{aligned}A&={\tfrac {6}{7}}{\sqrt {783+436{\sqrt {2}}}}\,a^{2}\\V&={\tfrac {1}{7}}{\sqrt {3\left(2194+1513{\sqrt {2}}\right)}}a^{3}\end{aligned}}} <p>The faces are scalene triangles. Their angles are arccos ( 1 6 − 1 12 2 ) ≈ 87.201 ∘ {\displaystyle \arccos {\biggl (}{\frac {1}{6}}-{\frac {1}{12}}{\sqrt {2}}{\biggr )}~{\color {Gray}\approx 87.201^{\circ }}} , arccos ( 3 4 − 1 8 2 ) ≈ 55.024 ∘ {\displaystyle \arccos {\biggl (}{\frac {3}{4}}-{\frac {1}{8}}{\sqrt {2}}{\biggr )}~{\color {Gray}\approx 55.024^{\circ }}} and arccos ( 1 12 + 1 2 2 ) ≈ 37.773 ∘ {\displaystyle \arccos {\biggl (}{\frac {1}{12}}+{\frac {1}{2}}{\sqrt {2}}{\biggr )}~{\color {Gray}\approx 37.773^{\circ }}} . </p> <h2 id="orthogonal-projections">Orthogonal projections</h2> <p>The truncated cuboctahedron and its dual, the <i>disdyakis dodecahedron</i> can be drawn in a number of symmetric orthogonal projective orientations. Between a polyhedron and its dual, vertices and faces are swapped in positions, and edges are perpendicular. </p> <table><tbody><tr><th>Projectivesymmetry</th><td>[4]</td><td>[3]</td><td>[2]</td><td>[2]</td><td>[2]</td><td>[2]</td><td>[2]+</td></tr><tr><th>Image</th><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><th>Dualimage</th><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr></tbody></table> <h2 id="related-polyhedra-and-tilings">Related polyhedra and tilings</h2> <table><tbody><tr><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2">Polyhedra similar to the disdyakis dodecahedron are duals to the <a href="/facts/Symmetrohedron/ovKnlENh">Bowtie octahedron and cube</a>, containing extra pairs triangular faces .<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5"><sup>5</sup></a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The disdyakis dodecahedron is one of a family of duals to the uniform polyhedra related to the cube and regular octahedron. </p> <table><tbody><tr><th colspan="11"><a href="/facts/Uniform_polyhedron/PHnprqRC">Uniform octahedral polyhedra</a></th></tr><tr><th colspan="7"><a href="/facts/List_of_spherical_symmetry_groups/3X3YcHoQ">Symmetry</a>: [4,3], <a href="/facts/Octahedral_symmetry/qLqhYxgm">(*432)</a></th><th>[4,3]+(432)</th><th colspan="2">[1+,4,3] = [3,3]<a href="/facts/Tetrahedral_symmetry/hIVlf9pu">(*332)</a></th><th>[3+,4]<a href="/facts/Pyritohedral_symmetry/hIVlf9pu">(3*2)</a></th></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/Cube/65lUaAqN">{4,3}</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Truncated_cube/XVAUG4fD">t{4,3}</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Cuboctahedron/hD7p0Mem">r{4,3}</a>r{31,1}</td><td><a href="/facts/Truncated_octahedron/GA98b4TH">t{3,4}</a>t{31,1}</td><td><a href="/facts/Octahedron/G38q92xW">{3,4}</a>{31,1}</td><td><a href="/facts/Rhombicuboctahedron/TmxUmEnl">rr{4,3}</a>s2{3,4}</td><td><a href="/facts/Truncated_cuboctahedron/nd2ltxcm">tr{4,3}</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Snub_cube/pbnr40gk">sr{4,3}</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Tetrahedron/7mkSrl6j">h{4,3}</a>{3,3}</td><td><a href="/facts/Truncated_tetrahedron/K9ItvmUK">h2{4,3}</a>t{3,3}</td><td><a href="/facts/Pseudoicosahedron/wWbpnDYp">s{3,4}</a>s{31,1}</td></tr><tr><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td></td><td>= </td><td>= </td><td>= </td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td> = or </td><td> = or </td><td> =</td></tr><tr><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><th colspan="11">Duals to uniform polyhedra</th></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/Octahedron/G38q92xW">V43</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Triakis_octahedron/mJ3s18DL">V3.82</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Rhombic_dodecahedron/X3npAlmr">V(3.4)2</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Tetrakis_hexahedron/RjfM6K49">V4.62</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Cube/65lUaAqN">V34</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Deltoidal_icositetrahedron/bu6NBY9X">V3.43</a></td><td>V4.6.8</td><td><a href="/facts/Pentagonal_icositetrahedron/2v6EVUPX">V34.4</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Tetrahedron/7mkSrl6j">V33</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Triakis_tetrahedron/qz6NNDMU">V3.62</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Pyritohedron/7r519eCl">V35</a></td></tr><tr><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>It is a polyhedra in a sequence defined by the <a href="/facts/Face_configuration/wWaBS6t0">face configuration</a> V4.6.2<i>n</i>. This group is special for having all even number of edges per vertex and form bisecting planes through the polyhedra and infinite lines in the plane, and continuing into the hyperbolic plane for any <i>n</i> ≥ 7. </p><p>With an even number of faces at every vertex, these polyhedra and tilings can be shown by alternating two colors so all adjacent faces have different colors. </p><p>Each face on these domains also corresponds to the fundamental domain of a <a href="/facts/Symmetry_group/CNqeseMp">symmetry group</a> with order 2,3,<i>n</i> mirrors at each triangle face vertex. </p> <table><tbody><tr><th colspan="13">*<i>n</i>32 symmetry mutation of omnitruncated tilings: 4.6.2<i>n</i> <ul><li>v</li><li>t</li><li>e</li></ul></th></tr><tr><th rowspan="2">Sym.<a href="/facts/Orbifold_notation/HCbBoa2J">*<i>n</i>32</a><a href="/facts/Coxeter_notation/ArUw6goe">[<i>n</i>,3]</a></th><th colspan="4"><a href="/facts/List_of_spherical_symmetry_groups/3X3YcHoQ">Spherical</a></th><th><a href="/facts/List_of_planar_symmetry_groups/3buKYIft">Euclid.</a></th><th colspan="2">Compact hyperb.</th><th>Paraco.</th><th colspan="4">Noncompact hyperbolic</th></tr><tr><th>*232[2,3]</th><th>*332[3,3]</th><th>*432[4,3]</th><th>*532[5,3]</th><th>*632[6,3]</th><th>*732[7,3]</th><th>*832[8,3]</th><th>*∞32[∞,3]</th><th> [12i,3]</th><th> [9i,3]</th><th> [6i,3]</th><th> [3i,3]</th></tr><tr><th>Figures</th><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><th><a href="/facts/Vertex_configuration/wWaBS6t0">Config.</a></th><td><a href="/facts/Hexagonal_prism/oxYc0nF2">4.6.4</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Truncated_octahedron/GA98b4TH">4.6.6</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Truncated_cuboctahedron/nd2ltxcm">4.6.8</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Truncated_icosidodecahedron/d5v9VpFY">4.6.10</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Truncated_trihexagonal_tiling/qMT9oGKC">4.6.12</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Truncated_triheptagonal_tiling/NyynmMEJ">4.6.14</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Truncated_trioctagonal_tiling/jgtEuHdg">4.6.16</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Truncated_triapeirogonal_tiling/z4hwBwxu">4.6.∞</a></td><td>4.6.24i</td><td>4.6.18i</td><td>4.6.12i</td><td>4.6.6i</td></tr><tr><th>Duals</th><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><th><a href="/facts/Face_configuration/wWaBS6t0">Config.</a></th><td><a href="/facts/Hexagonal_bipyramid/LXcnCg3M">V4.6.4</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Tetrakis_hexahedron/RjfM6K49">V4.6.6</a></td><td>V4.6.8</td><td><a href="/facts/Disdyakis_triacontahedron/WkV7L9Pg">V4.6.10</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Kisrhombille_tiling/qMT9oGKC">V4.6.12</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Order_3-7_kisrhombille/dChEPASD">V4.6.14</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Order_3-8_kisrhombille/jgtEuHdg">V4.6.16</a></td><td>V4.6.∞</td><td>V4.6.24i</td><td>V4.6.18i</td><td>V4.6.12i</td><td>V4.6.6i</td></tr></tbody></table> <table><tbody><tr><th colspan="9">*<i>n</i>42 symmetry mutation of omnitruncated tilings: 4.8.2<i>n</i> <ul><li>v</li><li>t</li><li>e</li></ul></th></tr><tr><th rowspan="2">Symmetry*<i>n</i>42[n,4]</th><th colspan="2"><a href="/facts/List_of_spherical_symmetry_groups/3X3YcHoQ">Spherical</a></th><th><a href="/facts/List_of_planar_symmetry_groups/3buKYIft">Euclidean</a></th><th colspan="4">Compact hyperbolic</th><th>Paracomp.</th></tr><tr><th>*242[2,4]</th><th>*342[3,4]</th><th>*442[4,4]</th><th>*542[5,4]</th><th>*642[6,4]</th><th>*742[7,4]</th><th>*842[8,4]...</th><th>*∞42[∞,4]</th></tr><tr><th>Omnitruncatedfigure</th><td><a href="/facts/Octagonal_prism/pMnX2f7F">4.8.4</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Truncated_cuboctahedron/nd2ltxcm">4.8.6</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Truncated_square_tiling/Mbj1fVzm">4.8.8</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Truncated_tetrapentagonal_tiling/r5gxSwXq">4.8.10</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Truncated_tetrahexagonal_tiling/ErN3lqr7">4.8.12</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Truncated_tetraheptagonal_tiling/0AeC2BRW">4.8.14</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Truncated_tetraoctagonal_tiling/rqk2ML2M">4.8.16</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Truncated_tetraapeirogonal_tiling/5XK7XWYP">4.8.∞</a></td></tr><tr><th>Omnitruncatedduals</th><td><a href="/facts/Octagonal_bipyramid/xGe9mvT8">V4.8.4</a></td><td>V4.8.6</td><td><a href="/facts/Tetrakis_square_tiling/oqpMEMBw">V4.8.8</a></td><td><a href="/facts/4-5_kisrhombille/ypfUXtog">V4.8.10</a></td><td>V4.8.12</td><td>V4.8.14</td><td>V4.8.16</td><td>V4.8.∞</td></tr></tbody></table> <h2 id="see-also">See also</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/First_stellation_of_rhombic_dodecahedron/auSpBvbQ">First stellation of rhombic dodecahedron</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Disdyakis_triacontahedron/WkV7L9Pg">Disdyakis triacontahedron</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Kisrhombille_tiling/qMT9oGKC">Kisrhombille tiling</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Great_rhombihexacron/uF4jAJ01">Great rhombihexacron</a>—A uniform dual polyhedron with the same surface topology</li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Robert_Williams_(geometer)/1FJDMSJ2">Williams, Robert</a> (1979). <i>The Geometrical Foundation of Natural Structure: A Source Book of Design</i>. Dover Publications, Inc. <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 0-486-23729-X. (Section 3-9)</li> <li><i>The Symmetries of Things</i> 2008, John H. Conway, Heidi Burgiel, Chaim Goodman-Strauss, <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 978-1-56881-220-5 <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100919143320/https://akpeters.com/product.asp?ProdCode=2205">[1]</a> (Chapter 21, Naming the Archimedean and Catalan polyhedra and tilings, page 285, kisRhombic dodecahedron)</li></ul> <h2 id="external-links">External links</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Eric_W._Weisstein/FbMuVDep">Weisstein, Eric W.</a>, "<a href="https://mathworld.wolfram.com/DisdyakisDodecahedron.html">Disdyakis dodecahedron</a>" ("<a href="http://mathworld.wolfram.com/CatalanSolid.html">Catalan solid</a>") at <i><a href="/facts/MathWorld/yc1jodbq">MathWorld</a></i>.</li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070701185441/http://polyhedra.org/poly/show/37/hexakis_octahedron">Disdyakis Dodecahedron (Hexakis Octahedron)</a> Interactive Polyhedron Model</li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>"Keyword: "forms" | ClipArt ETC". <a href="https://etc.usf.edu/clipart/keyword/forms" target="_blank">https://etc.usf.edu/clipart/keyword/forms</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>Conway, Symmetries of things, p.284 <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>Langer, Joel C.; Singer, David A. (2010), "Reflections on the lemniscate of Bernoulli: the forty-eight faces of a mathematical gem", Milan Journal of Mathematics, 78 (2): 643–682, doi:10.1007/s00032-010-0124-5, MR 2781856 <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" target="_blank">/wiki/Doi_(identifier)</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>Koca, Mehmet; Ozdes Koca, Nazife; Koc, Ramazon (2010). "Catalan Solids Derived From 3D-Root Systems and Quaternions". Journal of Mathematical Physics. 51 (4). arXiv:0908.3272. doi:10.1063/1.3356985. <a href="/wiki/ArXiv_(identifier)" target="_blank">/wiki/ArXiv_(identifier)</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:5"><p>Symmetrohedra: Polyhedra from Symmetric Placement of Regular Polygons Craig S. Kaplan <a href="http://www.cgl.uwaterloo.ca/csk/papers/bridges2001.html" target="_blank">http://www.cgl.uwaterloo.ca/csk/papers/bridges2001.html</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>