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Augmented Rhombicuboctahedron II (adapted from Leonardo)

This is a second interactive versión of Leonardo da Vinci's drawing of the augmented rhombicuboctahedron.

Leonardo da Vinci:Drawing of an augmented rhombicuboctahedron made to Luca Pacioli's De divina proportione.
Leonardo da Vinci made several drawings of polyhedra for Luca Pacioli's book 'De divina proportione'. Here we can see an adaptation of the augmented rhombicuboctahedron.

In this version we can see the interior of this polyhedron. Luca Pacioli wrote that 'you can only see the interior using your imagination'.

We can separate the pyramids and see that the interior is a rhombicuboctahedron.

Leonardo da Vinci:Drawing of a rhombicuboctahedron made to Luca Pacioli's De divina proportione.
Leonardo da Vinci made several drawings of polyhedra for Luca Pacioli's book 'De divina proportione'. Here we can see an adaptation of the rhombicuboctahedron.
Leonardo da Vinci: augmented rhombicuboctahedron | matematicasVisuales
Leonardo da Vinci: augmented rhombicuboctahedron | matematicasVisuales
Leonardo da Vinci: augmented rhombicuboctahedron | matematicasVisuales
Leonardo da Vinci: augmented rhombicuboctahedron | matematicasVisuales
Leonardo da Vinci: augmented rhombicuboctahedron | matematicasvisuales
Leonardo da Vinci: augmented rhombicuboctahedron | matematicasVisuales

You can play with an augmented rhombicuboctahedron with different pyramids sizes clicking the next link:

Augmented Rhombicuboctahedron
Starting with a Rhombicubotahedron we can add pyramids over each face. The we get a beautiful polyhedron that it is like a star.
Augmented Rombicuboctahedron | matematicasVisuales

REFERENCES

Luca Pacioli - La divina proporción - Ediciones Akal, 4th edition, 2004. Spanish edition of 'De divina proportione'. Translation by Juan Calatrava.
Rinus Roelofs' web site. Sculptor and Mathematician Rinus Roelofs has a wonderful web site full of beautiful ideas and resources. One example, his article A Mistake in a drawing by Leonardo da Vinci.
W.W.W. Rouse Ball and H.S.M. Coxeter, 'Mathematical Recreatins & Essays', The Macmillan Company, New York, 1947.
Pseudo Rhombicuboctahedra in George Hart's excellent website about polyhedra.
Peter R. Cromwell - 'Polyhedra', Cambridge University Press, 1999. (pp. 89 and 366-369)

MORE LINKS

Leonardo da Vinci:Drawing of a rhombicuboctahedron made to Luca Pacioli's De divina proportione.
Leonardo da Vinci made several drawings of polyhedra for Luca Pacioli's book 'De divina proportione'. Here we can see an adaptation of the rhombicuboctahedron.
Pseudo Rhombicuboctahedron
This polyhedron is also called Elongated Square Gyrobicupola. It is similar to the Rhombicuboctahedron but it is less symmetric.
Rhombic Dodecahedron (3): Augmented cube
Adding six pyramids to a cube you can build new polyhedra with twenty four triangular faces. For specific pyramids you get a Rhombic Dodecahedron that has twelve rhombic faces.
Leonardo da Vinci: Drawing of a dodecahedron made to Luca Pacioli's De divina proportione.
Leonardo da Vinci made several drawings of polyhedra for Luca Pacioli's book 'De divina proportione'. Here we can see an adaptation of the dodecahedron.
Leonardo da Vinci: Drawing of a truncated octahedron made to Luca Pacioli's De divina proportione.
Leonardo da Vinci made several drawings of polyhedra for Luca Pacioli's book 'De divina proportione'. Here we can see an adaptation of the truncated octahedron.
Leonardo da Vinci: Drawing of a cuboctahedron made to Luca Pacioli's De divina proportione.
Leonardo da Vinci made several drawings of polyhedra for Luca Pacioli's book 'De divina proportione'. Here we can see an adaptation of the cuboctahedron.
Leonardo da Vinci: Drawing of an stellated octahedron (stella octangula) made to Luca Pacioli's De divina proportione.
Leonardo da Vinci made several drawings of polyhedra for Luca Pacioli's book 'De divina proportione'. Here we can see an adaptation of the stellated octahedron (stella octangula).
Leonardo da Vinci:Drawing of an octahedron made to Luca Pacioli's De divina proportione.
Leonardo da Vinci made several drawings of polyhedra for Luca Pacioli's book 'De divina proportione'. Here we can see an adaptation of the octahedron.
Leonardo da Vinci: Drawing of a truncated tetrahedron made to Luca Pacioli's De divina proportione.
Leonardo da Vinci made several drawings of polyhedra for Luca Pacioli's book 'De divina proportione'. Here we can see an adaptation of the truncated tetrahedron.
Leonardo da Vinci:Drawing of a SEPTUAGINTA made to Luca Pacioli's De divina proportione.
Leonardo da Vinci made several drawings of polyhedra for Luca Pacioli's book 'De divina proportione'. Here we can see an adaptation of the Campanus' sphere.
Rhombic Dodecahedron (3): Augmented cube
Adding six pyramids to a cube you can build new polyhedra with twenty four triangular faces. For specific pyramids you get a Rhombic Dodecahedron that has twelve rhombic faces.
Rhombic Dodecahedron (4): Rhombic Dodecahedron made of a cube and six sixth of a cube
You can build a Rhombic Dodecahedron adding six pyramids to a cube. This fact has several interesting consequences.
Plane developments of geometric bodies: Octahedron
The first drawing of a plane net of a regular octahedron was published by Dürer in his book 'Underweysung der Messung' ('Four Books of Measurement'), published in 1525 .
Resources: Building polyhedra gluing faces
Using cardboard you can build beautiful polyhedra cutting polygons and glue them toghether. This is a very simple and effective technique. You can download several templates. Then print, cut and glue: very easy!
Resources: How to build polyhedra using paper and rubber bands
A very simple technique to build complex and colorful polyhedra.
Cube, octahedron, tetrahedron and other polyhedra: Taller de Talento Matemático Zaragoza,Spain, 2014-2015 (Spanish)
Material for a session about polyhedra (Zaragoza, 7th November 2014). We study the octahedron and the tetrahedron and their volumes. The truncated octahedron helps us to this task. We build a cubic box with cardboard and an origami tetrahedron.
Duality: cube and octahedron. Taller de Talento Matemático de Zaragoza, Spain. 2015-2016 XII edition (Spanish)
Material for a session about polyhedra (Zaragoza, 23rd Octuber 2015) . Building a cube with cardboard and an origami octahedron.
Building polyhedra. Basic techniques: Taller de Talento Matemático de Zaragoza (Spanish)
Material for a session about polyhedra (Zaragoza, 13th Abril 2012).
Construcción de poliedros. Cuboctaedro y dodecaedro rómbico: Taller de Talento Matemático de Zaragoza 2014 (Spanish)
Material for a session about polyhedra (Zaragoza, 9th May 2014). Simple techniques to build polyhedra like the tetrahedron, octahedron, the cuboctahedron and the rhombic dodecahedron. We can build a box that is a rhombic dodecahedron.
Stellated cuboctahedron
The compound polyhedron of a cube and an octahedron is an stellated cuboctahedron.It is the same to say that the cuboctahedron is the solid common to the cube and the octahedron in this polyhedron.