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Tetrahedron to Cuboctahedron
Expansion radially displaces the edges and faces of a polyhedron, keeping their orientations and sizes constant, while the gaps are filled in with new faces.
Contributed by:
Ralf Schaper
Suggested by:
Arnold Kirsch
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Archimedean Solids
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Expansion
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Platonic Solid
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Ralf Schaper
"
Tetrahedron to Cuboctahedron
"
http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/TetrahedronToCuboctahedron/
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Published: March 7, 2011
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