Kepler's Rhombic Solids
Kepler's Rhombic Solids
Kepler discovered his rhombic solids as the convex hulls of compounds of a Platonic solid and its dual. The rhombic dodecahedron derives from the cube-octahedron compound; the triacontahedron derives from the dodecahedron-icosahedron compound; and the cube from the stella octangula. The nets of the compounds are also shown.
References
References
[1] P. R. Cromwell, Polyhedra, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997 pp. 152–153.
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External Links
Permanent Citation
Permanent Citation
Izidor Hafner
"Kepler's Rhombic Solids"
http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/KeplersRhombicSolids/
Wolfram Demonstrations Project
Published: July 1, 2014