Octahedron

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In geometry, an octahedron (pl.: octahedra or octahedrons) is any polyhedron with eight faces. One special case is the regular octahedron, a Platonic solid composed of eight equilateral triangles, four of which meet at each vertex.

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Image: en.wikipedia (del) (cur) 06:20, 29 August 2005 . . Riumplus (Talk) . . 512x512 (40739 bytes) (Losslessly recompressed the image, shrinking file size by 12%) (del) (rev) 06:57, 3 November 2004 . . AndrewKepert (Talk) . . 512x512 (45719 bytes) (Johnson solid #3) Another attempt at using user:Cyp's w:en:User:Cyp/Poly.pov povray macros to automatically find faces and edges. I will update the source once I have a few more Johnson solids under control. See talk:Johnson solid for progress. This image was created with POV-Ray., CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.