Description

TRUNCATED OCTAHEDRON

This truncation is formed by dividing each of the octahedron’s edges into three equal line segments with two points. When each such point is joined to the adjacent points, the truncation is formed. It has interesting properties: the angle formed by two radii and the edge joining the two vertices is the most acute angle of the 3:4:5 triangle and it tiles or tessellates 3D Euclidean space as does the cube. This shape has its own name – mecon.