Snub disphenoid
In geometry, the snub disphenoid, Siamese dodecahedron, triangular dodecahedron, trigonal dodecahedron, or dodecadeltahedron is a convex polyhedron with twelve equilateral triangles as its faces. It is not a regular polyhedron because some vertices have four faces and others have five. It is a dodecahedron, one of the eight convex deltahedra (polyhedra with equilateral triangle faces), and is the 84th Johnson solid (non-uniform convex polyhedra with regular faces). It can be thought of as a square antiprism where both squares are replaced with two equilateral triangles.
Snub disphenoid | |
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Type | Johnson J83 – J84 – J85 |
Faces | 4+8 triangles |
Edges | 18 |
Vertices | 8 |
Vertex configuration | 4(34) 4(35) |
Symmetry group | D2d |
Dual polyhedron | Elongated gyrobifastigium |
Properties | convex, deltahedron |
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The snub disphenoid is also the vertex figure of the isogonal 13-5 step prism, a polychoron constructed from a 13-13 duoprism by selecting a vertex on a tridecagon, then selecting the 5th vertex on the next tridecagon, doing so until reaching the original tridecagon. It cannot be made uniform, however, because the snub disphenoid has no circumscribed sphere.