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The (small) rhombicuboctahedron (Cundy and Rowlett 1989, p. 105), sometimes simply called the rhombicuboctahedron (Wenninger 1989, p. 27; Maeder 1997, Conway et al. 1999), is the 26-faced Archimedean solid consisting of faces 8{3}+18{4}. Although this solid is sometimes also called the truncated icosidodecahedron, this name is inappropriate since true truncation would yield rectangular instead of square faces.

It is also the uniform polyhedron with Maeder index 10 (Maeder 1997), Wenninger index 13 (Wenninger 1989), Coxeter index 22 (Coxeter et al. 1954), and Har'El index 15 (Har'El 1993). It has Schläfli symbol r{3; 4} and Wythoff symbol 34|2.

SmallRhombicubProjections

Some symmetric projections of the small rhombicuboctahedron are illustrated above.

The solid is an expanded (or cantellated) cube or octahedron since it may be constructed from either of these solids by the process of expansion.

The small rhombicuboctahedron is implemented in the Wolfram Language as UniformPolyhedron["Rhombicuboctahedron"]. Precomputed properties are available as PolyhedronData["SmallRhombicuboctahedron", prop].

A small rhombicuboctahedron appears in the middle right as one of the polyhedral "stars" in M. C. Escher's 1948 wood engraving "Stars" (Forty 2003, Plate 43).

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Its dual polyhedron of the small rhombicuboctahedron is the deltoidal icositetrahedron, illustrated above together with their common midsphere. The inradius r_d of the dual, midradius rho of the solid and dual, and circumradius R of the solid for a=1 are

r_d=1/(17)(6+sqrt(2))sqrt(5+2sqrt(2))=1.22026...
(1)
rho=1/2sqrt(4+2sqrt(2))=1.30656...
(2)
R=1/2sqrt(5+2sqrt(2))=1.39896....
(3)

The distances between the solid center and centroids of the triangular and square faces are

r_3=1/2sqrt(1/3(11+6sqrt(2)))
(4)
r_4=1/2(1+sqrt(2)).
(5)

The surface area and volume are

S=18+2sqrt(3)
(6)
V=1/3(12+10sqrt(2)).
(7)

The Dehn invariant of the unit small rhombicuboctahedron is

D=24<3>_2
(8)
=24tan^(-1)(sqrt(2))
(9)

where the first expression uses the basis of Conway et al. (1999). It can be dissected into the elongated square gyrobicupola, which differs only by the relative rotatino of the top and bottom cupolas.

The small rhombicuboctahedron can be constructed as the convex hull of the 24 vertices given by (+/-r_4,+/-1/2,+/-1/2) and the 16 distinct permutations of these values.

SmallRhombicuboctahedronConvexHulls

The small rhombicuboctahedron is the convex hull of the small cubicuboctahedron, small rhombihexahedron, and stellated truncated hexahedron. Since the convex hull of the small cubicuboctahedron is the small rhombicuboctahedron, whose dual is the deltoidal icositetrahedron, the dual of the small cubicuboctahedron (i.e., the small hexacronic icositetrahedron) is one of the stellations of the deltoidal icositetrahedron (Wenninger 1989, p. 57).


See also

Elongated Square Gyrobicupola, Equilateral Zonohedron, Great Rhombicuboctahedron, Icositetrahedron, Quasirhombicuboctahedron, Rhombicuboctahedron, Small Rhombicuboctahedral Graph

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References

Ball, W. W. R. and Coxeter, H. S. M. Mathematical Recreations and Essays, 13th ed. New York: Dover, pp. 137-138, 1987.Conway, J. H.; Radin, C.; and Sadun, L. "On Angles Whose Squared Trigonometric Functions Are Rational." Discr. Computat. Geom. 22, 321-332, 1999.Coxeter, H. S. M.; Longuet-Higgins, M. S.; and Miller, J. C. P. "Uniform Polyhedra." Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. London Ser. A 246, 401-450, 1954.Cundy, H. and Rollett, A. "(Small) Rhombicuboctahedron. 3.4^2." §3.7.5 in Mathematical Models, 3rd ed. Stradbroke, England: Tarquin Pub., p. 105, 1989.Escher, M. C. "Stars." Wood engraving. 1948. http://www.mcescher.com/Gallery/back-bmp/LW359.jpg.Forty, S. M.C. Escher. Cobham, England: TAJ Books, 2003.Geometry Technologies. "Rhombicubeoctahedron [sic]." http://www.scienceu.com/geometry/facts/solids/rh_cubeocta.html.Har'El, Z. "Uniform Solution for Uniform Polyhedra." Geometriae Dedicata 47, 57-110, 1993.Kasahara, K. "From Regular to Semiregular Polyhedrons." Origami Omnibus: Paper-Folding for Everyone. Tokyo: Japan Publications, pp. 220-221, 1988.Maeder, R. E. "10: Rhombicuboctahedron." 1997. https://www.mathconsult.ch/static/unipoly/10.html.Wenninger, M. J. "The Rhombicuboctahedron." Model 13 in Polyhedron Models. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, p. 27, 1989.

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Weisstein, Eric W. "Small Rhombicuboctahedron." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Web Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/SmallRhombicuboctahedron.html

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