Other Names
- Heptaparallelohedron (Buckminster Fuller)
- Fuller applied the name "Dymaxion" and Vector Equilibrium to this shape, used in an early version of the Dymaxion map.
- With Oh symmetry, it is a rectified cube or rectified octahedron (Norman Johnson)
- With Td symmetry, it is a cantellated tetrahedron.
- With D3d symmetry, it is a triangular gyrobicupola.
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