Compound of ten truncated tetrahedra
Encyclopedia
Compound of ten truncated tetrahedra
Type Uniform compound
Uniform polyhedron compound
A uniform polyhedron compound is a polyhedral compound whose constituents are identical uniform polyhedra, in an arrangement that is also uniform: the symmetry group of the compound acts transitively on the compound's vertices.The uniform polyhedron compounds were first enumerated by John Skilling...

Index UC56
Polyhedra 10 truncated tetrahedra
Truncated tetrahedron
In geometry, the truncated tetrahedron is an Archimedean solid. It has 4 regular hexagonal faces, 4 regular triangular faces, 12 vertices and 18 edges.- Area and volume :...

Faces 40 triangles, 40 hexagons
Edges 180
Vertices 120
Symmetry group
Symmetry group
The symmetry group of an object is the group of all isometries under which it is invariant with composition as the operation...

icosahedral
Icosahedral symmetry
A regular icosahedron has 60 rotational symmetries, and a symmetry order of 120 including transformations that combine a reflection and a rotation...

 (Ih)
Subgroup
Subgroup
In group theory, given a group G under a binary operation *, a subset H of G is called a subgroup of G if H also forms a group under the operation *. More precisely, H is a subgroup of G if the restriction of * to H x H is a group operation on H...

 restricting to one constituent
chiral
Chirality (mathematics)
In geometry, a figure is chiral if it is not identical to its mirror image, or, more precisely, if it cannot be mapped to its mirror image by rotations and translations alone. For example, a right shoe is different from a left shoe, and clockwise is different from counterclockwise.A chiral object...

 tetrahedral
Tetrahedral symmetry
150px|right|thumb|A regular [[tetrahedron]], an example of a solid with full tetrahedral symmetryA regular tetrahedron has 12 rotational symmetries, and a symmetry order of 24 including transformations that combine a reflection and a rotation.The group of all symmetries is isomorphic to the group...

 (T)

This uniform polyhedron compound
Uniform polyhedron compound
A uniform polyhedron compound is a polyhedral compound whose constituents are identical uniform polyhedra, in an arrangement that is also uniform: the symmetry group of the compound acts transitively on the compound's vertices.The uniform polyhedron compounds were first enumerated by John Skilling...

 is a composition of 10 truncated tetrahedra
Truncated tetrahedron
In geometry, the truncated tetrahedron is an Archimedean solid. It has 4 regular hexagonal faces, 4 regular triangular faces, 12 vertices and 18 edges.- Area and volume :...

, formed by truncating each of the tetrahedra in the compound of 10 tetrahedra
Compound of ten tetrahedra
This polyhedron can be seen as either a polyhedral stellation or a compound. This compound was first described by Edmund Hess in 1876.- As a compound :It can also be seen as the compound of ten tetrahedra with full icosahedral symmetry...

. It also results from composing the two enantiomers of the compound of 5 truncated tetrahedra
Compound of five truncated tetrahedra
This uniform polyhedron compound is a composition of 5 truncated tetrahedra, formed by truncating each of the tetrahedra in the compound of 5 tetrahedra. A far-enough truncation creates the Compound of five octahedra...

.
The source of this article is wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.  The text of this article is licensed under the GFDL.
 
x
OK