A compound of six cubes has two forms. One form is a symmetric arrangement of six
cube
In geometry, a cube is a three-dimensional solid object bounded by six square faces, facets or sides, with three meeting at each vertex. Viewed from a corner it is a hexagon and its net is usually depicted as a cross.
The cube is the only r ...
s, considered as square
prisms. It is a special case of the
compound of six cubes with rotational freedom.
Another form is not related to a
compound of six cubes with rotational freedom.
See also
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Compound of three cubes
In geometry, the compound of three cubes is a uniform polyhedron compound formed from three cubes arranged with octahedral symmetry. It has been depicted in works by Max Brückner and M.C. Escher.
History
This compound appears in Max Brückner's ...
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Compound of five cubes
The compound of five cubes is one of the five regular polyhedral compounds. It was first described by Edmund Hess in 1876.
It is one of five regular compounds, and dual to the compound of five octahedra. It can be seen as a faceting of a regula ...
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Compound of four cubes
The compound of four cubes or Bakos compound is a face-transitive polyhedron compound of four cubes with octahedral symmetry. It is the dual of the compound of four octahedra. Its surface area is 687/77 square lengths of the edge.
Its Cartesian ...
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Compound of six octahedra
References
Polyhedral compounds
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