Pseudo great rhombicuboctahedron

Pseudo great rhombicuboctahedron
Pseudo-great rhombicuboctahedron
Type Pseudo uniform polyhedron,
Star polyhedron
Elements F = 26, E = 48
V = 24 (χ = 2)
Faces by sides 8{3}+(8+8+2){4}
Symmetry group D4d
Properties singular vertex figure

4.4.4.3/2
Vertex figure

Pseudo great deltoidal icositetrahedron
(dual polyhedron)

In geometry, the pseudo great rhombicuboctahedron is one of the two pseudo uniform polyhedra, the other being the convex elongated square gyrobicupola or pseudo rhombicuboctahedron. It has the same vertex figure as the nonconvex great rhombicuboctahedron (a uniform polyhedron), but is not a uniform polyhedron (due to not being isogonal), and has a smaller symmetry group. It can be obtained from the great rhombicuboctahedron by taking a square face and the 8 faces with a common vertex to it (forming a crossed square cupola) and rotating them by an angle of π4. It is related to the nonconvex great rhombicuboctahedron in the same way that the pseudo rhombicuboctahedron is related to the rhombicuboctahedron.

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The pseudo-great rhombicuboctahedron may also be termed an elongated crossed square gyrobicupola, in analogy to the name of the elongated square gyrobicupola.

 
Great rhombicuboctahedron
 
Pseudo great rhombicuboctahedron

References

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  • Grünbaum, Branko (2009). "An enduring error". Elemente der Mathematik. 64 (3): 89–101. doi:10.4171/EM/120. MR 2520469.. Reprinted in Pitici, Mircea, ed. (2011). The Best Writing on Mathematics 2010. Princeton University Press. pp. 18–31..
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