Rectified truncated cube

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Rectified truncated cube
Rectified truncated cube.png
Schläfli symbol rt{4,3}
Conway notation atC
Faces 38:
8 {3}
24 { }∨( )
6 {8}
Edges 72
Vertices 12+24
Symmetry group Oh, [4,3], (*432) order 48
Rotation group O, [4,3]+, (432), order 24
Dual polyhedron Joined truncated cube
Properties convex
Rectified truncated cube net.png
Net

The rectified truncated cube is a polyhedron, constructed as a rectified truncated cube. It has 38 faces: 8 equilateral triangles, 24 isosceles triangles, and 6 octagons.

Topologically, the triangles corresponding to the cube's vertices are always equilateral, although the octagons, while having equal edge lengths, do not have the same edge lengths with the equilateral triangles, having different but alternating angles, causing the other triangles to be isosceles instead.

Related polyhedra[]

The rectified truncated cube can be seen in sequence of rectification and truncation operations from the cube. Further truncation, and alternation operations creates two more polyhedra:

Name Truncated
cube
Rectified
truncated
cube
Truncated
rectified
truncated
cube
Snub
rectified
truncated
cube
Coxeter tC rtC trtC srtC
Conway atC btC stC
Image Uniform polyhedron-43-t01.svg Rectified truncated cube.png Truncated rectified truncated cube.png Snub rectified truncated cube.png

See also[]

References[]

  • Coxeter Regular Polytopes, Third edition, (1973), Dover edition, ISBN 0-486-61480-8 (pp. 145–154 Chapter 8: Truncation)
  • John H. Conway, Heidi Burgiel, Chaim Goodman-Strass, The Symmetries of Things 2008, ISBN 978-1-56881-220-5

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