Two tetrahedrons form
a cube.
The cube expands into a haptihedron. Sometimes
I call it a movey.
These are my pet names for the uniform polyhedron
technically called a rhombicuboctahedron.
This is a form I envisioned and investigated intensively.
(See the story in
Light
Body.)
So far, I haven't found references to it elsewhere.
It is the visual inverse of the Vector Equilibrium
(cuboctahedron), a form of great importance to
Buckminster Fuller. The vertices of one are centered
in the faces of the other.
In terms of sacred geometry, this form is a transition to the dodecahedron and icosahedron. I'm focused on details of the transition. How can I picture the change? The haptihedron has six great circles arranged orthogonally around the three dimensions of a cube. That is x, y, and z axes or horizontal, vertical, and depth oriented. What makes one circle migrate to make a form with six axes? How does the process of change look from the inside?
- Be inside the haptihedron (QTVRs)
- See the haptihedron aligned with the vector equilibrium
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