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Elongated triangular cupola

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Symmetry group
  
C3v

Vertices
  
15

Elongated triangular cupola

Type
  
Johnson J17 - J18 - J19

Faces
  
1+3 triangles 3.3 squares 1 hexagon

Vertex configuration
  
6(4.6) 3(3.4.3.4) 6(3.4)

In geometry, the elongated triangular cupola is one of the Johnson solids (J18). As the name suggests, it can be constructed by elongating a triangular cupola (J3) by attaching a hexagonal prism to its base.

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A Johnson solid is one of 92 strictly convex polyhedra that have regular faces but are not uniform (that is, they are not Platonic solids, Archimedean solids, prisms or antiprisms). They were named by Norman Johnson, who first listed these polyhedra in 1966.

Formulae

The following formulae for volume and surface area can be used if all faces are regular, with edge length a:

V = ( 1 6 ( 5 2 + 9 3 ) ) a 3 3.77659... a 3

A = ( 9 + 5 3 2 ) a 2 13.3301... a 2

Dual polyhedron

The dual of the elongated triangular cupola has 15 faces: 6 isosceles triangles, 3 rhombi, and 6 quadrilaterals.

The elongated triangular cupola can form a tessellation of space with tetrahedra and square pyramids.

References

Elongated triangular cupola Wikipedia