Object Details
- Description
- This cut, folded, and glued paper model is in the general shape of a rhombicuboctahedron, However, all eight of the triangular sides have been replaced by facets with three triangular sides. Moreover six of the square faces have been replaced by facets, each with with a square base and four rectangular sides. A paper tag on the model reads: 665. Another mark reads: R.L. Curtis (/) 10/10/38. Wheeler gave as the source of this model Bruckner VIII, 41.
- Reference:
- A. H. Wheeler, , "List of Models," Mathematics Collections, Non-accession number 1979.3002.83, NMAH.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- teacher
- Wheeler, Albert Harry
- maker
- Curtis, Robert L.
- date made
- 1938 10 10
- Credit Line
- Gift of Helen M. Wheeler
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- tan (overall color)
- cut and folded (overall production method/technique)
- Measurements
- average spatial: 16 cm x 16 cm x 16 cm; 6 5/16 in x 6 5/16 in x 6 5/16 in
- Object Name
- Geometric Model
