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{{Short description|Polyhedral compound}}

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!bgcolor=#e7dcc3 colspan=2|Compound of cube and octahedron

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|bgcolor=#e7dcc3|[[Symmetry group]]||[[Octahedral symmetry|octahedral]] (''O''_''h'')

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[[File:Bronze mace head from Galicia.jpg|thumb|Medieval [[Mace (bludgeon)|mace]] head]]

ThisThe '''compound of cube and octahedron''' is a [[polyhedron]] which can be seen as either a polyhedral [[stellation]] or a [[Polyhedron compound|compound]].

==Construction==

The 14 [[Cartesian coordinate]]s of the vertices of the compound are.

: 6: (±2, 0, 0), ( 0, ±2, 0), ( 0, 0, ±2)

: 8: ( ±1, ±1, ±1)

== As a compound ==

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It has [[octahedral symmetry]] ('''O'''_''h'') and shares the same vertices as a [[rhombic dodecahedron]].

This can be seen as the three-dimensional equivalent of the compound of two squares ({8/2} "[[octagram]]"); this series continues on to infinity, with the four-dimensional equivalent being the [[compound of tesseract and 16-cell]].

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| image2 = Polyhedron 6-8 blue.png |width2=1|height2=1

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| footer = The intersection of both solids is the [[cuboctahedron]], and their [[convex hull]] is the [[rhombic dodecahedron]].

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| footer = A cube and its [[dual polyhedron|dual]] octahedron

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| footer = The intersection of both solids is the [[cuboctahedron]], and their [[convex hull]] is the [[rhombic dodecahedron]].

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| image3 = Polyhedron pair 6-8 from greenyellow.png |width3=1|height3=1

| image4 = Polyhedron pair 6-8 from red.png |width4=1|height4=1

| footer = Seen from 2-fold, 3-fold and 4-fold symmetry axes<br>The hexagon in the middle is the [[Petrie polygon]] of both solids.

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| footer = If the edge crossings were vertices, the [[Spherical polyhedron|mapping on a sphere]] would be the same as that of a [[deltoidal icositetrahedron]].

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== As a stellation ==

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The stellation facets for construction are:

:[[Image:First stellation of cuboctahedron trifacets.png|240px]][[Image:First stellation of cuboctahedron square facets.png|240px]]

== See also ==

* [[Compound of two tetrahedra]]

* [[Compound of dodecahedron and icosahedron]]

* [[Compound of small stellated dodecahedron and great dodecahedron]]

* [[Compound of great stellated dodecahedron and great icosahedron]]

==References==