The final two Archimedean solids are derived from the cuboctahedron and the
icosidodecahedron by adding equilateral triangles to their faces. Triangulating the
left
right
Fig. 17 - Snub cuboctahedron
Fig. 18 - *Snub icosidodecahedron
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Required parts
32 triangles, 6 squares, 60 pinges
140 triangles, 210 pinges
faces of these polyhedra preserves their axes of rotational symmetry but it destroys
all of their mirror planes. As a result these snub polyhedra display left- and right-
handedness in the same way that polygons with only rotational symmetry do.
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