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Augmented Tetrahedron


An augmented tetrahedron is an augmented polyhedron obtained by augmenting the four faces of a tetrahedron with four tetrahedra, leading to a concave polyhedron with 8 vertices, 18 edges, and 12 faces. It is therefore a (non-regular, concave) dodecahedron.

AugmentedTetrahedron

When the base tetrahedron is a regular tetrahedron, the resulting equilateral polyhedron is a concave deltahedron, illustrated above and implemented in the Wolfram Language as PolyhedronData["EquilateralAugmentedTetrahedron"]. For a base tetrahedron with edge lengths a, the resulting polyhedron has surface area and volume given by

S=3sqrt(3)a^2
(1)
V=5/(6sqrt(2))a^3.
(2)

The convex hull of this polyhedron is the triakis tetrahedron.


See also

Augmentation, Augmented Polyhedron, Deltahedron, Regular Tetrahedron, Tetrahedron, Tritetrahedron

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Weisstein, Eric W. "Augmented Tetrahedron." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Web Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/AugmentedTetrahedron.html

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