Compound of five octahemioctahedra

In geometry, this uniform polyhedron compound is a composition of 5 octahemioctahedra, in the same vertex arrangement as in the compound of 5 cuboctahedra.

Compound of five octahemioctahedra
TypeUniform compound
IndexUC61
Polyhedra5 octahemioctahedra
Faces40 triangles, 20 hexagons
Edges120
Vertices60
Symmetry groupicosahedral (Ih)
Subgroup restricting to one constituentpyritohedral (Th)

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. Usage of the "neo filling" makes the compound of five octahemioctahedra a hollow polyhedron compound.[1]


Traditional filling

"Neo filling"

References

  • Skilling, John (1976), "Uniform Compounds of Uniform Polyhedra", Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, 79 (3): 447–457, doi:10.1017/S0305004100052440, MR 0397554.


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