Compound of five cubes
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| Type | Regular compound |
| Stellation Stellation Stellation is a process of constructing new polygons , new polyhedra in three dimensions, or, in general, new polytopes in n dimensions. The process consists of extending elements such as edges or face planes, usually in a symmetrical way, until they meet each other again... core |
rhombic triacontahedron Rhombic triacontahedron In geometry, the rhombic triacontahedron is a convex polyhedron with 30 rhombic faces. It is an Archimedean dual solid, or a Catalan solid. It is the polyhedral dual of the icosidodecahedron, and it is a zonohedron.... |
| Convex hull Convex hull In mathematics, the convex hull or convex envelope for a set of points X in a real vector space V is the minimal convex set containing X.... |
Dodecahedron |
| Index | UC9 |
| Polyhedra | 5 cube Cube In geometry, a cube is a three-dimensional solid object bounded by six square faces, facets or sides, with three meeting at each vertex. The cube can also be called a regular hexahedron and is one of the five Platonic solids. It is a special kind of square prism, of rectangular parallelepiped and... s |
| Faces | 30 squares Square (geometry) In geometry, a square is a regular quadrilateral. This means that it has four equal sides and four equal angles... |
| Edges | 60 |
| Vertices | 20 |
| Dual | Compound of five octahedra Compound of five octahedra 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 stellation :It is the second stellation of the icosahedron, and given as Wenninger model index 23.... |
| 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 |
pyritohedral 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... (Th) |
Polyhedral compound
A polyhedral compound is a polyhedron that is itself composed of several other polyhedra sharing a common centre. They are the three-dimensional analogs of polygonal compounds such as the hexagram....
is a symmetric arrangement of five cube
Cube
In geometry, a cube is a three-dimensional solid object bounded by six square faces, facets or sides, with three meeting at each vertex. The cube can also be called a regular hexahedron and is one of the five Platonic solids. It is a special kind of square prism, of rectangular parallelepiped and...
s. This compound was first described by Edmund Hess in 1876.
It is one of five regular compounds, and dual to the compound of five octahedra
Compound of five octahedra
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 stellation :It is the second stellation of the icosahedron, and given as Wenninger model index 23....
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It is one of the stellations of the rhombic triacontahedron
Rhombic triacontahedron
In geometry, the rhombic triacontahedron is a convex polyhedron with 30 rhombic faces. It is an Archimedean dual solid, or a Catalan solid. It is the polyhedral dual of the icosidodecahedron, and it is a zonohedron....
. It has icosahedral symmetry
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).
Its convex hull
Convex hull
In mathematics, the convex hull or convex envelope for a set of points X in a real vector space V is the minimal convex set containing X....
is a regular dodecahedron. It additionally shares its edge arrangement with the small ditrigonal icosidodecahedron
Small ditrigonal icosidodecahedron
In geometry, the small ditrigonal icosidodecahedron is a nonconvex uniform polyhedron, indexed as U30.-Related polyhedra:Its convex hull is a regular dodecahedron...
, the great ditrigonal icosidodecahedron, and the ditrigonal dodecadodecahedron
Ditrigonal dodecadodecahedron
In geometry, the Ditrigonal dodecadodecahedron is a nonconvex uniform polyhedron, indexed as U41.- Related polyhedra :Its convex hull is a regular dodecahedron...
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 Small ditrigonal icosidodecahedron Small ditrigonal icosidodecahedron In geometry, the small ditrigonal icosidodecahedron is a nonconvex uniform polyhedron, indexed as U30.-Related polyhedra:Its convex hull is a regular dodecahedron... |
 Great ditrigonal icosidodecahedron |
 Ditrigonal dodecadodecahedron Ditrigonal dodecadodecahedron In geometry, the Ditrigonal dodecadodecahedron is a nonconvex uniform polyhedron, indexed as U41.- Related polyhedra :Its convex hull is a regular dodecahedron... |
 Dodecahedron (convex hull Convex hull In mathematics, the convex hull or convex envelope for a set of points X in a real vector space V is the minimal convex set containing X.... ) |
Compound of five cubes |
The compound of ten 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...
can be formed by taking each of these five cube
Cube
In geometry, a cube is a three-dimensional solid object bounded by six square faces, facets or sides, with three meeting at each vertex. The cube can also be called a regular hexahedron and is one of the five Platonic solids. It is a special kind of square prism, of rectangular parallelepiped and...
s and replacing them with the two tetrahedra
Tetrahedron
In geometry, a tetrahedron is a polyhedron composed of four triangular faces, three of which meet at each vertex. A regular tetrahedron is one in which the four triangles are regular, or "equilateral", and is one of the Platonic solids...
of the Stella octangula
Stella octangula
The stellated octahedron, or stella octangula, is the only stellation of the octahedron. It was named by Johannes Kepler in 1609, though it was known to earlier geometers...
(which share the same vertex arrangement of a cube).
As a stellation
This compound can be formed as a stellation of the rhombic triacontahedronRhombic triacontahedron
In geometry, the rhombic triacontahedron is a convex polyhedron with 30 rhombic faces. It is an Archimedean dual solid, or a Catalan solid. It is the polyhedral dual of the icosidodecahedron, and it is a zonohedron....
. The 30 rhombic faces exist in the planes of the 5 cubes.
The stellation facets for construction are:
As a facetting
It is also a faceting of a dodecahedron, shown at left, and is also a faceting of the icosidodecahedronIcosidodecahedron
In geometry, an icosidodecahedron is a polyhedron with twenty triangular faces and twelve pentagonal faces. An icosidodecahedron has 30 identical vertices, with two triangles and two pentagons meeting at each, and 60 identical edges, each separating a triangle from a pentagon...
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External links
- MathWorld: Cube 5-Compound
- George Hart: Compounds of Cubes
- Steven Dutch: Uniform Polyhedra and Their Duals
- VRMLVRMLVRML is a standard file format for representing 3-dimensional interactive vector graphics, designed particularly with the World Wide Web in mind...
model: http://www.interocitors.com/polyhedra/UCs/09%__5_Cubes.wrl