Octahedron

Electronic Geometry Model No. 2000.09.009

Author

Ulrich Reitebuch

Description

The octahedron is one of the five Platonic solids.

The octahedron has 6 vertices, 8 faces and 12 edges, the dual solid is the cube. Here the distance from vertex to center point is scaled to 1.

Model produced with: JavaView 2.00.005

Keywords		octahedron; Platonic solid; regular polyhedron
MSC-2000 Classification		51M20
Zentralblatt No.		01683013

References

H. S. M. Coxeter: Regular Polytopes, Collier-Macmillan Ltd. London (1963).
Magnus J. Wenniger: Polyhedron Models, Cambridge University Press (1970).
Alan Holden: Shape, Space and Symmetry, Columbia University Press New York/London (1971).
Michael Joswig, Ewgenij Gawrilow: Polymake, http://www.math.tu-berlin.de/diskregeom/polymake/doc/.
Konrad Polthier and Samy Khadem and Eike Preuss and Ulrich Reitebuch: JavaView Home Page, http://www.javaview.de/.

Files

Master File: octahedron_Master.jvx
Applet File: octahedron_Master.jvx
Preview: octahedron_Preview.gif
Original File (private file format): octahedron_Original.poly

Submission information

Submitted: Fri Sep 1 16:24:12 MET 2000.
Accepted: Thu Oct 25 14:19:08 MDT 2001.

Author's Address

Ulrich Reitebuch

Technische Universität Berlin
Fachbereich Mathematik, MA 8-5
Straße des 17. Juni 136
D-10623 Berlin, Germany
fuli@sfb288.math.tu-berlin.de
http://www-sfb288.math.tu-berlin.de/~fuli/