Triangular orthobicupola

Triangular orthobicupola
TypeJohnson
J26J27J28
Faces2+6 triangles
6 squares
Edges24
Vertices12
Vertex configuration6(32.42)
6(3.4.3.4)
Symmetry groupD3h
Dual polyhedronTrapezo-rhombic dodecahedron
Propertiesconvex
Net

In geometry, the triangular orthobicupola is one of the Johnson solids (J27). As the name suggests, it can be constructed by attaching two triangular cupolas (J3) along their bases. It has an equal number of squares and triangles at each vertex; however, it is not vertex-transitive. It is also called an anticuboctahedron, twisted cuboctahedron or disheptahedron. It is also a canonical polyhedron.

A Johnson solid is one of 92 strictly convex polyhedra that is composed of regular polygon faces but are not uniform polyhedra (that is, they are not Platonic solids, Archimedean solids, prisms, or antiprisms). They were named by Norman Johnson, who first listed these polyhedra in 1966.[1]

The triangular orthobicupola is the first in an infinite set of orthobicupolae.

  1. ^ Johnson, Norman W. (1966), "Convex polyhedra with regular faces", Canadian Journal of Mathematics, 18: 169–200, doi:10.4153/cjm-1966-021-8, MR 0185507, Zbl 0132.14603.