Object Details
- Description
- This colorful plastic model can be considered as an "augmented" regular tetrahedron - each face of the tetrhedron is replaced by three equal isoceles triangles that form a pyramid above the pyramid. Hende one has a twelve-sided figure.A mark on one face reads: 755. A tag on the same face reads: Dual (/) no. 6. The triakis tetrahdron is the dual of the truncated tetrahedron.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- maker
- Wheeler, Albert Harry
- Credit Line
- Gift of Helen M. Wheeler
- Physical Description
- plastic (overall material)
- black (overall color)
- red (overall color)
- turquoise (overall color)
- cut and glued (overall production method/technique)
- Measurements
- average spatial: 7 cm x 8 cm x 6.8 cm; 2 3/4 in x 3 5/32 in x 2 11/16 in
- Object Name
- Geometric Model
