This

uniform polyhedron compound In geometry, a uniform polyhedron compound is a polyhedral compound whose constituents are identical (although possibly enantiomorphous) uniform polyhedra, in an arrangement that is also uniform, i.e. the symmetry group of the compound acts transi ...

is a composition of 2

icosahedra In geometry, an icosahedron ( or ) is a polyhedron with 20 faces. The name comes and . The plural can be either "icosahedra" () or "icosahedrons". There are infinitely many non- similar shapes of icosahedra, some of them being more symmetri ...

. It has

octahedral symmetry A regular octahedron has 24 rotational (or orientation-preserving) symmetries, and 48 symmetries altogether. These include transformations that combine a reflection and a rotation. A cube has the same set of symmetries, since it is the polyhed ...

''O_h''. As a holosnub, it is represented by

Schläfli symbol In geometry, the Schläfli symbol is a notation of the form \ that defines regular polytopes and tessellations. The Schläfli symbol is named after the 19th-century Swiss mathematician Ludwig Schläfli, who generalized Euclidean geometry to mor ...

β and

Coxeter diagram Harold Scott MacDonald "Donald" Coxeter, (9 February 1907 – 31 March 2003) was a British and later also Canadian geometer. He is regarded as one of the greatest geometers of the 20th century. Biography Coxeter was born in Kensington t ...

. The triangles in this compound decompose into two

orbits In celestial mechanics, an orbit is the curved trajectory of an object such as the trajectory of a planet around a star, or of a natural satellite around a planet, or of an artificial satellite around an object or position in space such as a ...

under action of the symmetry group: 16 of the triangles lie in coplanar pairs in

octahedral In geometry, an octahedron (plural: octahedra, octahedrons) is a polyhedron with eight faces. The term is most commonly used to refer to the regular octahedron, a Platonic solid composed of eight equilateral triangles, four of which meet at ea ...

planes, while the other 24 lie in unique planes. It shares the same

vertex arrangement In geometry, a vertex arrangement is a set of points in space described by their relative positions. They can be described by their use in polytopes. For example, a ''square vertex arrangement'' is understood to mean four points in a plane, equa ...

as a nonuniform

truncated octahedron In geometry, the truncated octahedron is the Archimedean solid that arises from a regular octahedron by removing six pyramids, one at each of the octahedron's vertices. The truncated octahedron has 14 faces (8 regular hexagons and 6 squares), 36 ...

, having irregular hexagons alternating with long and short edges. The icosahedron, as a uniform ''snub tetrahedron'', is similar to these snub-pair compounds:

compound of two snub cubes This uniform polyhedron compound is a composition of the 2 enantiomers of the snub cube. As a holosnub, it is represented by Schläfli symbol βr and Coxeter diagram . The vertex arrangement of this compound is shared by a convex nonuniform t ...

and

compound of two snub dodecahedra This uniform polyhedron compound is a composition of the 2 enantiomers of the snub dodecahedron. The vertex arrangement of this compound is shared by a convex nonuniform truncated icosidodecahedron, with rectangular faces, alongside irregular hex ...

. Together with its convex hull, it represents the icosahedron-first projection of the nonuniform snub tetrahedral antiprism.

Cartesian coordinates

Cartesian coordinates A Cartesian coordinate system (, ) in a plane is a coordinate system that specifies each point uniquely by a pair of numerical coordinates, which are the signed distances to the point from two fixed perpendicular oriented lines, measured i ...

for the vertices of this compound are all the permutations of : (±1, 0, ±τ) where τ = (1+)/2 is the

golden ratio In mathematics, two quantities are in the golden ratio if their ratio is the same as the ratio of their sum to the larger of the two quantities. Expressed algebraically, for quantities a and b with a > b > 0, where the Greek letter phi ( ...

(sometimes written φ).

Compound of two dodecahedra

The dual compound has two dodecahedra as pyritohedra in dual positions: : Compound pyritohedron and dual

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model

Polyhedral compounds {{polyhedron-stub

Cartesian coordinates

Compound of two dodecahedra

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