Triakis truncated tetrahedron
In geometry, the triakis truncated tetrahedron is a convex polyhedron made from 4 hexagons and 12 isosceles triangles. It can be used to tessellate three-dimensional space, making the triakis truncated tetrahedral honeycomb.
Triakis truncated tetrahedron | |
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Type | Plesiohedron |
Faces | 4 hexagons 12 isosceles triangles |
Edges | 30 |
Vertices | 16 |
Conway notation | k3tT |
Dual polyhedron | 16|Order-3 truncated triakis tetrahedron |
Properties | convex |
The triakis truncated tetrahedron is the shape of the Voronoi cell of the carbon atoms in diamond, which lie on the diamond cubic crystal structure. As the Voronoi cell of a symmetric space pattern, it is a plesiohedron.
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