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What is the name of this 3D shape with 12 outer vertices?

Writer Andrew Henderson
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Faces: 48

Outside vertices: 12

Other vertices: 14 (I believe)Object

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1 Answer

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The object is the first stellation of the rhombic dodecahedron.This is sometimes known as Escher's solid, for its use in a study for his Stars, though the final picture uses a compound of three regular octahedra rather than the squashed ones of this question's solid.

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