The construction of polyhedra using identical building blocks. The illustrations above show such constructions for the cuboctahedron,
octahedron rhombic
dodecahedron, and square pyramid. In Book XIII
of the Elements, Euclid used a Haűy construction
to build the dodecahedron (Wells 1991).
See also
Octahedral Number,
Octahedron,
Rhombic Dodecahedral Number,
Rhombic
Dodecahedron
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References
Haűy, R.-J. "Essai d'une théorie sur la structure des crystals appliquée à plusieurs genres de substances crystallisées."
1784.Wells, D. The
Penguin Dictionary of Curious and Interesting Geometry. London: Penguin,
p. 93, 1991.Referenced on Wolfram|Alpha
Haűy Construction
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Weisstein, Eric W. "Haűy Construction."
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