rhombicuboctahedron
Noun
Meaning
(geometry) An Archimedean solid with eight triangular and eighteen square faces; the small rhombicuboctahedron.
(in combination) Either of the small rhombicuboctahedron and great rhombicuboctahedron.
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A Cabela's branded "self-healing" target made of ballistic material The Freescape games Driller and Dark Side both had a game map in the form of a rhombicuboctahedron.
A painting by an anonymous artist of Pacioli and a pupil depicts a glass rhombicuboctahedron half-filled with water.
A rhombicuboctahedron would be an elongated square orthobicupola.
A spherical 180° × 360° panorama can be projected onto any polyhedron; but the rhombicuboctahedron provides a good enough approximation of a sphere while being easy to build.
During the Rubik's Cube craze of the 1980s, one twisty puzzle sold had the form of a rhombicuboctahedron (the mechanism was of course that of a Rubik's Cube ).
One model of Cabela's "Self healing ground bouncing reactive targets" (right), styled a sphere, resembles the rhombicuboctahedron.