Compound of six pentagrammic prisms
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| 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 | UC36 |
| Polyhedra | 6 pentagrammic prism Pentagrammic prism In geometry, the pentagrammic prism is one in an infinite set of nonconvex prisms formed by square sides and two regular star polygon caps, in this case two pentagrams.This polyhedron is identified with the indexed name U78 as a uniform polyhedron.... s |
| Faces | 12 pentagrams, 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 | 90 |
| Vertices | 60 |
| 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... |
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... 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... (I) |
| 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 |
5-fold dihedral Dihedral symmetry in three dimensions This article deals with three infinite sequences of point groups in three dimensions which have a symmetry group that as abstract group is a dihedral group Dihn .See also point groups in two dimensions.Chiral:... (D5) |
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 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...
symmetric arrangement of 6 pentagrammic prism
Pentagrammic prism
In geometry, the pentagrammic prism is one in an infinite set of nonconvex prisms formed by square sides and two regular star polygon caps, in this case two pentagrams.This polyhedron is identified with the indexed name U78 as a uniform polyhedron....
s, aligned with the axes of fivefold rotational symmetry of a dodecahedron.
Related polyhedra
This compound shares its vertex arrangementVertex arrangement
In geometry, a vertex arrangement is a set of points in space described by their relative positions. They can be described by their use in polytopes....
with four uniform polyhedra
Uniform polyhedron
A uniform polyhedron is a polyhedron which has regular polygons as faces and is vertex-transitive...
as follows:
 Rhombicosidodecahedron Rhombicosidodecahedron In geometry, the rhombicosidodecahedron, or small rhombicosidodecahedron, is an Archimedean solid, one of thirteen convex isogonal nonprismatic solids constructed of two or more types of regular polygon faces.... |
 Small dodecicosidodecahedron Small dodecicosidodecahedron In geometry, the small dodecicosidodecahedron is a nonconvex uniform polyhedron, indexed as U33. Its vertex figure is a crossed quadrilateral.-Related polyhedra:... |
 Small rhombidodecahedron Small rhombidodecahedron In geometry, the small rhombidodecahedron is a nonconvex uniform polyhedron, indexed as U39. Its vertex figure is a crossed quadrilateral.- Related polyhedra :... |
 Small stellated truncated dodecahedron |
Compound of six pentagrammic prisms |
 Compound of twelve pentagrammic prisms Compound of twelve pentagrammic prisms This uniform polyhedron compound is a symmetric arrangement of 12 pentagrammic prisms, aligned in pairs with the axes of fivefold rotational symmetry of a dodecahedron.It results from composing the two enantiomorphs of the compound of six pentagrammic prisms... |