Catalan solid

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The Catalan Solid for scale, by midradius

A Catalan solid is convex isohedral polyhedron with a single dihedral angle, other than the regular polyhedra and the infinite families of bipyramids and trapezohedra. The Catalan solids are the duals of the Archimedean solids. There are thirteen Catalan solids.

They were described by a Belgian mathematician Eugène Catalan in 1865.

List of the Catalan solids[edit | edit source]

Name Image Faces Edges Vertices Dual
Triakis tetrahedron 12 isosceles triangles 6+12 4+4 Truncated tetrahedron
Rhombic dodecahedron 12 rhombi 24 6+8 Cuboctahedron
Triakis octahedron 24 isosceles triangles 12+24 6+8 Truncated cube
Tetrakis hexahedron 24 isosceles triangles 12+24 6+8 Truncated octahedron
Deltoidal icositetrahedron 24 isosceles trapezoids 24+24 6+8+12 Small rhombicuboctahedron
Pentagonal icositetrahedron 24 floret pentagons 12+24+24 6+8+24 Snub cube
Disdyakis dodecahedron 48 scalene triangles 24+24+24 6+8+12 Great rhombicuboctahedron
Rhombic triacontahedron 30 rhombi 60 12+20 Icosidodecahedron
Triakis icosahedron 60 isosceles triangles 30+60 12+20 Truncated dodecahedron
Pentakis dodecahedron 60 isosceles triangles 30+60 12+20 Truncated icosahedron
Deltoidal hexecontahedron 60 kites 60+60 12+20+30 Small rhombicosidodecahedron
Pentagonal hexecontahedron 60 floret pentagons 30+60+60 12+20+60 Snub dodecahedron
Disdyakis triacontahedron 120 scalene triangles 60+60+60 12+20+30 Great rhombicosidodecahedron

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