Octahedral Rotational Symmetry Types
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This Demonstration colors the faces of the small rhombicosidodecahedron to show the subgroups of the octahedral rotational group. Faces that are e.g. blue land on another blue face when one of the group transformations is applied.
Contributed by: Izidor Hafner (June 2014)
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[1] P. R. Cromwell, Polyhedra, New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997 pp. 309–313.
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Published: June 3 2014