Octahedron
Inspired by Waxing Gibbous by Jeannine Mosely, I began repurposing fruit crates from the school cafeteria for polyhedral sculptures of my own. In my attempts, I discovered I could construct a sculpture corresponding to any Archimedean solid in which four faces meet at a vertex. There are only five of this kind:
Octahedron |
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Cuboctahedron |
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Icosidodecahedron |
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Rhombicuboctahedron |
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Rhombicosidodecahedron still to come…
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Paul Salomon
