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The Truncated Octahedron is a space filling polyhedron
The truncated octahedron is an Archimedean solid. It has 8 regular hexagonal faces and 6 square faces.
The truncated octahedron is an Archimedean solid. It has 8 regular hexagonal faces and 6 square faces. Its volume can be calculated knowing the volume of an octahedron.
It is a space-filling polyhedron. These polyhedra pack together to fill space, forming a 3 dimensional space tessellation or tilling.
Using eight half cubes we can make a truncated octahedron. The cube tesselate the space an so do the truncated octahedron. We can calculate the volume of a truncated octahedron.
Steinhaus, in his book 'Mathematical Snapshots' wrote:[The truncated octahedron] "fills the whole space in such a way that only 4 solids meet in each vertex; it is semiregular -which means that its faces are regular polygons. There is no other solid having these properties and thus it gives the simplest decomposition of space in congruent parts." (pag. 188)
REFERENCES
Hugo Steinhaus, Mathematical Snapshots, Dover Publications (third edition, 1999)
We can read some pages of this book in Google Books:
Mathematical Snapshots by Hugo Steinhaus.
Magnus Wenninger - 'Polyhedron Models', Cambridge University Press.
Peter R. Cromwell - 'Polyhedra', Cambridge University Press, 1999.
H.Martin Cundy and A.P. Rollet, 'Mathematical Models', Oxford University Press, Second Edition, 1961.
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