Rectified truncated tetrahedron

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Rectified truncated tetrahedron
Schläfli symbol rt{3,3}
Conway notation atT
Faces 20:
4 {3}
12 { }∨( )
4 {6}
Edges 48
Vertices 12+18
Symmetry group Td, [3,3], (*332) order 24
Rotation group T, [3,3]+, (332), order 12
Dual polyhedron Joined truncated tetrahedron
Properties convex

Net

The rectified truncated tetrahedron is a polyhedron, constructed as a rectified truncated tetrahedron. It has 20 faces: 4 equilateral triangles, 12 isosceles triangles, and 4 regular hexagons.

Related polyhedra

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

Name Truncated
tetrahedron
Rectified
truncated
tetrahedron
Truncated
rectified
truncated
tetrahedron
Snub
rectified
truncated
tetrahedron
Coxeter tT rtT trtT srtT
Conway atT btT stT
Image
Conway dtT = kT jtT mtT gtT
Dual

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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