Kinematics of the cuboctahedron

The skeleton of a cuboctahedron, considering its edges as rigid beams connected at flexible joints at its vertices but omitting its faces, does not have structural rigidity and consequently its vertices can be repositioned by folding (changing the dihedral angle) at edges and face diagonals. The cuboctahedron's kinematics is noteworthy in that its vertices can be repositioned to the vertex positions of the regular icosahedron, the Jessen's icosahedron, and the regular octahedron, in accordance with the pyritohedral symmetry of the icosahedron.

Kinematic cuboctahedra
Cuboctahedron Regular icosahedron Jessen's icosahedron Regular octahedron
Coxeter mirrors
Mirror dihedrals 𝝅/4 𝝅/3 𝝅/2 𝝅/3 𝝅/5 𝝅/2 𝝅/2 𝝅/2 𝝅/2 𝝅/3 𝝅/4 𝝅/2
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