Truncation (geometry) - Other Truncations

Other Truncations

In quasiregular polyhedra, a truncation is a more qualitative term where some other adjustments are made to adjust truncated faces to become regular. These are sometimes called rhombitruncations.

For example, the truncated cuboctahedron is not really a truncation since the cut vertices of the cuboctahedron would form rectangular faces rather than squares, so a wider operation is needed to adjust the polyhedron to fit desired squares.

In the quasiregular duals, an alternate truncation operation only truncates alternate vertices. (This operation can also apply to any zonohedron which have even-sided faces.)

The dual operation to truncation is the construction of a Kleetope.