Cuboctahedron - Other Names

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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