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A regular tetrahedron, an example of a solid with full tetrahedral symmetry. A regular tetrahedron has 12 rotational (or orientation-preserving) symmetries, and a symmetry order of 24 including transformations that combine a reflection and a rotation.
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.
The proper rotations, (order-3 rotation on a vertex and face, and order-2 on two edges) and reflection plane (through two faces and one edge) in the symmetry group of the regular tetrahedron The regular tetrahedron has 24 isometries, forming the symmetry group known as full tetrahedral symmetry T d {\displaystyle \mathrm {T} _{\mathrm {d} }} .
A regular tetrahedron is invariant under twelve distinct rotations (if the identity transformation is included as a trivial rotation and reflections are excluded). These are illustrated here in the cycle graph format, along with the 180° edge (blue arrows) and 120° vertex (pink and orange arrows) rotations that permute the tetrahedron through the positions.
In geometry, the deltoidal icositetrahedron (or trapezoidal icositetrahedron, tetragonal icosikaitetrahedron, [1] tetragonal trisoctahedron, [2] strombic icositetrahedron) is a Catalan solid.
Drawing and crystal model of variant with tetrahedral symmetry called hexakis tetrahedron [1] In geometry , a tetrakis hexahedron (also known as a tetrahexahedron , hextetrahedron , tetrakis cube , and kiscube [ 2 ] ) is a Catalan solid .
It includes templates of face elements for construction and helpful hints in building, and also brief descriptions on the theory behind these shapes. It contains the 75 nonprismatic uniform polyhedra , as well as 44 stellated forms of the convex regular and quasiregular polyhedra.
It has 8 vertices adjusted in or out in alternate sets of 4, with the limiting case a tetrahedral envelope. Variations can be parametrized by (a,b), where b and a depend on each other such that the tetrahedron defined by the four vertices of a face has volume zero, i.e. is a planar face. (1,1) is the rhombic solution.