Octagon - Derived Figures

Derived Figures

  • An eight-sided star, called an octagram, with Schläfli symbol {8/3} is contained with a regular octagon.

  • The truncated square tiling has 2 octagons around every vertex.

  • An octagonal prism contains two octagonal faces.

  • An octagonal antiprism contains two octagonal faces.

  • The truncated cuboctahedron contains 6 octagonal faces.

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