Compound of ten truncated tetrahedra

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Compound of ten truncated tetrahedra
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Type Uniform compound
IndexUC56
Polyhedra10 truncated tetrahedra
Faces40 triangles, 40 hexagons
Edges180
Vertices120
Symmetry group icosahedral (Ih)
Subgroup restricting to one constituent chiral tetrahedral (T)

This uniform polyhedron compound is a composition of 10 truncated tetrahedra, formed by truncating each of the tetrahedra in the compound of 10 tetrahedra. It also results from composing the two enantiomers of the compound of 5 truncated tetrahedra.

Cartesian coordinates

Cartesian coordinates for the vertices of this compound are all the even permutations of

(±1, ±1, ±3)
(±τ−1, ±(−τ−2), ±2τ)
(±τ, ±(−2τ−1), ±τ2)
(±τ2, ±(−τ−2), ±2)
(±(2τ−1), ±1, ±(2τ − 1))

where τ = (1+5)/2 is the golden ratio (sometimes written φ).

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