Truncated Octahedron

The truncated octahedron is the 14-faced Archimedean solid with faces 8+6. It is also the uniform polyhedron with Maeder index 8 (Maeder 1997), Wenninger index 7 (Wenninger 1989), Coxeter index 20 (Coxeter et al. 1954), and Har'El index 13 (Har'El 1993). It has Schläfli symbol t and Wythoff symbol 24|3. It was called the "mecon" by Buckminster Fuller (Rawles 1997). The dual polyhedron of the truncated octahedron is the tetrakis hexahedron. The truncated...

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