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In geometry, the rhombic dodecahedron is a convex polyhedron with 12 congruent rhombic faces. It has 24 edges, and 14 vertices of 2 types. As a Catalan solid, it is the dual polyhedron of the cuboctahedron. As a parallelohedron, the rhombic dodecahedron can be used to tesselate its copies in space creating a rhombic dodecahedral honeycomb.
The vertices with the obtuse rhombic face angles have 4 cells. The vertices with the acute rhombic face angles have 6 cells. The rhombic dodecahedron can be twisted on one of its hexagonal cross-sections to form a trapezo-rhombic dodecahedron, which is the cell of a somewhat similar tessellation, the Voronoi diagram of hexagonal close-packing.
1/8 space-filler, 2As + 1B Tetrahedron 1 self dual, unit volume Coupler 1 space filling oblate octa Cuboctahedron 2.5 edges 1/2, vol. = 1/8 of 20 Duo-Tet Cube 3 24 MITEs Octahedron 4 dual of cube, spacefills w/ tet Rhombic Triacontahedron 5 radius = ~0.9994, vol. = 120 Ts Rhombic Triacontahedron 5+ radius = 1, vol. = 120 Es Rhombic Dodecahedron 6
The regular hyperbolic honeycombs thus include two with four or five dodecahedra meeting at each edge; their dihedral angles thus are π/2 and 2π/5, both of which are less than that of a Euclidean dodecahedron. Apart from this effect, the hyperbolic honeycombs obey the same topological constraints as Euclidean honeycombs and polychora.
[1] [2] There are different truncations of a rhombic triacontahedron into a topological rhombicosidodecahedron: Prominently its rectification (left), the one that creates the uniform solid (center), and the rectification of the dual icosidodecahedron (right), which is the core of the dual compound.
A regular polyhedral compound can be defined as a compound which, like a regular polyhedron, is vertex-transitive, edge-transitive, and face-transitive.Unlike the case of polyhedra, this is not equivalent to the symmetry group acting transitively on its flags; the compound of two tetrahedra is the only regular compound with that property.
Rhombic net It is analogous to the regular hexagonal being dissectable into 3 rhombi and tiling the plane as a rhombille . The rhombille tiling is actually an orthogonal projection of the trigonal trapezohedral honeycomb .
The cC is also inaccurately called a truncated rhombic dodecahedron, although that name rather suggests a rhombicuboctahedron. The cC can more accurately be called a tetratruncated rhombic dodecahedron, because only the (6) order-4 vertices of the rhombic dodecahedron are truncated. The dual of the chamfered cube is the tetrakis cuboctahedron.