Compound of six tetrahedra

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Compound of six tetrahedra
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Type Uniform compound
Convex hull Nonuniform truncated octahedron
IndexUC3
Polyhedra6 tetrahedra
Faces24 triangles
Edges36
Vertices24
Symmetry group octahedral (Oh)
Subgroup restricting to one constituent2-fold antiprismatic (D2d)
3D model of a compound of six tetrahedra Compound of six tetrahedra.stl
3D model of a compound of six tetrahedra

The compound of six tetrahedra is a uniform polyhedron compound. It's composed of a symmetric arrangement of 6 tetrahedra. It can be constructed by inscribing a stella octangula within each cube in the compound of three cubes, or by stellating each octahedron in the compound of three octahedra.

It is one of only five polyhedral compounds (along with the compound of two great dodecahedra, the compound of five great dodecahedra, the compound of two small stellated dodecahedra, and the compound of five small stellated dodecahedra) which is vertex-transitive and face-transitive but not edge-transitive.

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