SnubPolyhedron

SnubPolyhedron[poly]

gives the snub polyhedron of poly by truncating some corners.

Details and Options

Examples

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Basic Examples  (2)

Snub polyhedron of a dodecahedron:

Find the snub of the Space Shuttle:

Visualization:

Scope  (4)

SnubPolyhedron works on polyhedra:

A SnubPolyhedron of Platonic solids includes Tetrahedron:

Cube:

Dodecahedron:

Octahedron:

Icosahedron:

Support polyhedron meshes:

Show the snub polyhedron by different length ratios:

Applications  (4)

Basic Applications  (3)

Gallery of Platonic solids and their snubs:

Gallery of Archimedean solids and their snubs:

Snub compounds of Platonic solids:

Archimedean solids:

Polyhedron Operations  (1)

Use SnubPolyhedron to compute the polyhedron operations, such as gyro operation:

Properties & Relations  (1)

The snub simple polyhedron is simple:

Possible Issues  (2)

SnubPolyhedron only supports simple polyhedra:

SnubPolyhedron can return degenerate polyhedra:

Wolfram Research (2019), SnubPolyhedron, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/SnubPolyhedron.html.

Text

Wolfram Research (2019), SnubPolyhedron, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/SnubPolyhedron.html.

CMS

Wolfram Language. 2019. "SnubPolyhedron." Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Wolfram Research. https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/SnubPolyhedron.html.

APA

Wolfram Language. (2019). SnubPolyhedron. Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Retrieved from https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/SnubPolyhedron.html

BibTeX

@misc{reference.wolfram_2025_snubpolyhedron, author="Wolfram Research", title="{SnubPolyhedron}", year="2019", howpublished="\url{https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/SnubPolyhedron.html}", note=[Accessed: 22-February-2025 ]}

BibLaTeX

@online{reference.wolfram_2025_snubpolyhedron, organization={Wolfram Research}, title={SnubPolyhedron}, year={2019}, url={https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/SnubPolyhedron.html}, note=[Accessed: 22-February-2025 ]}