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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.
This is an indexed list of the uniform and stellated polyhedra from the book Polyhedron Models, by Magnus Wenninger.. The book was written as a guide book to building polyhedra as physical models.
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
arccos (- 1 / 2 ) = 2 π / 3 120° Great rhombic triacontahedron (Dual of great icosidodecahedron) — V(3. 5 / 2 .3. 5 / 2 ) arccos ( √ 5-1 / 4 ) = 2 π / 5 72° Duals of the ditrigonal polyhedra Small triambic icosahedron (Dual of small ditrigonal icosidodecahedron) — V(3. 5 / 2 .3. 5 / ...
It shares its vertex arrangement with the small stellated truncated dodecahedron and the uniform compounds of 6 or 12 pentagrammic prisms.It additionally shares its edge arrangement with the rhombicosidodecahedron (having the square faces in common), and with the small dodecicosidodecahedron (having the decagonal faces in common).
The illustration here shows the vertex figure (red) of the cuboctahedron being used to derive the corresponding face (blue) of the rhombic dodecahedron.. For a uniform polyhedron, each face of the dual polyhedron may be derived from the original polyhedron's corresponding vertex figure by using the Dorman Luke construction. [2]
The rhombic dodecahedron, generated from four line segments, no two of which are parallel to a common plane. Its most symmetric form is generated by the four long diagonals of a cube. [2] It tiles space to form the rhombic dodecahedral honeycomb. The elongated dodecahedron, generated from five line segments, with two triples of coplanar segments.