Compound of four cubes

A compound of four cubes is a face-transitive polyhedron compound that is a symmetric arrangement of four cubes, as trigonal trapezohedrons. It can be constructed by dual of compound of four octahedra. Its surface area is 687/77 square lengths of the edge.[1]

Compound of four cubes
TypeCompound
Convex hullChamfered cube
Polyhedra4 cubes
Faces32 squares
Edges48
Vertices8+24
Symmetry groupoctahedral (Oh)
Subgroup restricting to one constituent3-fold antiprismatic (D3d)

Cartesian coordinates

With added fifth cube

Cartesian coordinates for the vertices of this compound are:

(±3, ±3, ±3)
(±5, ±1, ±1)
(±1, ±5, ±1)
(±1, ±1, ±5)

See also

References


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