Compound of twelve tetrahedra with rotational freedom

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Compound of twelve tetrahedra with rotational freedom
Type Uniform compound
Index UC2
Polyhedra 12 tetrahedra
Faces 48
triangles
Edges 72
Vertices 48
Symmetry group octahedral (Oh)
Subgroup restricting to one constituent 4-fold
improper rotation
(S4)

This

stella octangula may be inscribed within each cube in the compound of six cubes with rotational freedom
, which has the same vertices as this compound.

When θ = 0, all six

stella octangula coincide in pairs yielding (two superimposed copies of) the compound of six tetrahedra
.

Gallery

References

  • Skilling, John (1976), "Uniform Compounds of Uniform Polyhedra", Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, 79 (3): 447–457,
    S2CID 123279687
    .