Showing posts with label rhombic dodecahedron. Show all posts
Showing posts with label rhombic dodecahedron. Show all posts
Wednesday, June 20, 2012
Thursday, June 7, 2012
RHOMBIC DODECAHEDRON
The rhombic dodecahedron is a convex polyhedron composed by 12 rhombuses (where the long diagonal is √2 times the short one). It is a Catalan solid dual to the cuboctahedron truncated octahedron. Many of them can come together to form a honeycomb as shown here (see also this web of Angel Requena). One can put one ball inside each cell to produce the face-centered cubic packing, the best one as states the famous Kepler conjecture.
| Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bienenwabe_mit_Eiern_und_Brut_5.jpg |
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