Compound of five cubohemioctahedra

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Compound of five cubohemioctahedra
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Type Uniform compound
IndexUC60
Polyhedra5 cubohemioctahedra
Faces30 squares, 20 hexagons
Edges120
Vertices60
Symmetry group icosahedral (Ih)
Subgroup restricting to one constituent pyritohedral (Th)

This uniform polyhedron compound is a composition of 5 cubohemioctahedra, in the same arrangement as in the compound of 5 cuboctahedra.

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Filling

There is some controversy on how to colour the faces of this polyhedron compound. Although the common way to fill in a polygon is to just colour its whole interior, this can result in some filled regions hanging as membranes over empty space. Hence, the "neo filling" is sometimes used instead as a more accurate filling. In the neo filling, orientable polyhedra are filled traditionally, but non-orientable polyhedra have their faces filled with the modulo-2 method (only odd-density regions are filled in). In addition, overlapping regions of coplanar faces can cancel each other out. [1]

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Traditional filling
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"Neo filling"

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References

  1. "Uniform Polyhedra". polytope.net. Archived from the original on 2013-10-28. Retrieved 2014-04-05.

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