Stellated octahedron
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title:
Stellated octahedron
text:
The stellated octahedron is the only stellation of the octahedron. It is also called the stella octangula, a name given to it by Johannes Kepler in 1609, though it was known to earlier geometers. It was depicted in Pacioli's De Divina Proportione, 1509. It is the simplest of five regular polyhedral compounds, and the only regular compound of two tetrahedra. It is also the least dense of the regular polyhedral compounds, having a density of 2. It can be seen as a 3D extension of the hexagram: the
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Polyhedral compound
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellated_octahedron
date created:
2005-09-03T00:30:14Z
date modified:
2024-09-13T02:29:57Z
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