Elementary deltahedra


A deltahedron is a polyhedron (formally, a finite abstract polytope of rank 3 embedded in R^3 such that no two vertices map to the same point) whose faces are all equilateral triangles. An elementary deltahedron is a deltahedron that cannot be formed from two smaller deltahedra via the process of blending or augmentation; that is, placing one deltahedron next to another such that one triangular face overlaps, and removing said triangular face as well as identifying the three overlapping edges and vertices. I exclude the triangular dihedron, which can be considered the identity of the blending operation.

Here is a list of small non-self-intersecting elementary deltahedra by face count.


List


4 faces

Tetrahedron - convex, regular


8 faces

Octahedron - convex, regular


10 faces

Pentagonal bipyramid - convex, isohedral, Johnson (J13)


12 faces

Snub disphenoid - convex, Johnson (J84)


14 faces

Triaugmented triangular prism - convex, Johnson (J51)

Crownacorn polyhedron - 2 concave ridges

Hexagonal sphenohedron - 2 concave ridges


16 faces

Gyroelongated square bipyramid - Johnson (J17)

Tapeenra polyhedron - 1 concave ridge

Chord of icosahedron - 3 concave ridges

Extended hexagonal sphenohedron - 2 concave ridges

Hemi-tapeenra polyhedron - 4 concave ridges


18 faces

Trapezoidally subdivided sphenocorona - This one is not concave, but not strictly convex because it has 4 flat ridges.

Inverted trapezoidally subdivided sphenocorona - 4 concave ridges. This is an alternative realization of the trapezoidally subdivided sphenocorona.

18-2

Sliverette tapeenra polyhedron - 4 concave ridges. Magnet model.

Inverted tapeenra polyhedron - 4 concave ridges. This is an alternative realization of the sliverette tapeenra polyhedron.

18-4 - This one is completely asymmetrical.

18-5 - 2 concave ridges

18-6

Augmented semi-extended hexagonal sphenohedron - 4 concave ridges

18-9

18-10 - 6 concave ridges. This one has triangular prismatic symmetry and looks really cool.


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