Friday, October 13, 2017

Dual Solids: The Cube and The Octahedron

by Patrick Bishop, Arsah Rahman, and Dr. Evelyn Sander


Two polyhedra are dual to one another if the verticies of one correspond to the faces of the other. Here we demonstrate the progression of a cube becoming an octahedron.





These prints were designed in OpenSCAD. The base is designed to fit the shape. It is slanted at the front for maximum viewing of the shape.

There are two other pairs of regular solids, the icosahedron/dodecahedron, and the tetrahedron and itself.