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- Vertex description: 4.6.4/3.6
- Faces: 10
- Edges: 24
- Vertices: 12
- External facelets: 30
- Dual: Hexahemioctacron (infinite)
- Name breakdown:
- Cubo-: 6 faces (squares) lie parallel to those of a
cube
- -hemi-octa-: Hemi = through the centre of model. Octa = faces
(hexagons) parallel to an octahedron, but only half as many (4) because
they're hemi
A uniform polyhedron whose faces consist of 6 squares (orange) and 4
hexagons (each a different colour). It is a faceting of the
cuboctahedron, that is, it shares the
same vertices. It also shares the same vertices with the
Octahemioctahedron. In fact these all share the
same edges too.
Nets for this model were printed from Great Stella using a colour inkjet
printer onto white paper. I think the result looks better than those printed
with a colour laser printer. The colour doesn't crack at the edges so much.
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One of the nets from Great Stella. I used the "Edge connection IDs"
option from the print-preview dialog box, which numbers all the tabs in
matching pairs. This is useful to make sure you arrange the colours
correctly.
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Start by gluing one of the six pyramids together with the tabs out.
Then find another one with a matching tab number, such as 22 seen here.
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The tabs should be folded in and glued around the matching pair of tabs
that were already glued facing out. Tabs without a match yet should be
folded and glued out.
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Proceed with the remaining pyramids, folding any tab-pair in if they
have a match already and gluing around that matching tab-pair, or
folding and gluing out if not matched yet.
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Last part. You'll need to apply glue carefully to all remaining tabs
and put this part in place all at once.
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Another view of the finished model.
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