Type: | Johnson |
Edges: | 15 |
Vertices: | 9 |
Symmetry: | C3v |
Vertex Config: | \begin{align} &6 x (3 x 4 x 6)+\\ &3 x (3 x 4 x 3 x 4) \end{align} |
Net: | Triangular cupola (symmetric net).svg |
In geometry, the triangular cupola is the cupola with hexagon as its base and triangle as its top. If the edges are equal in length, the triangular cupola is the Johnson solid. It can be seen as half a cuboctahedron. The triangular cupola can be applied to construct many polyhedrons.
The triangular cupola has 4 triangles, 3 squares, and 1 hexagon as their faces; the hexagon is the base and one of the four triangles is the top. If all of the edges are equal in length, the triangles and the hexagon becomes regular. The dihedral angle between each triangle and the hexagon is approximately 70.5°, that between each square and the hexagon is 54.7°, and that between square and triangle is 125.3°. A convex polyhedron in which all of the faces are regular is a Johnson solid, and the triangular cupola is among them, enumerated as the third Johnson solid
J3
Given that
a
A
h
V
C3v
J18
J22
J27
J35
J36
J44
J65
The triangular cupola may also be applied in constructing truncated tetrahedron, although it leaves some hollows and a regular tetrahedron as its interior. constructed such polyhedron in a similar way as the rhombic dodecahedron constructed by attaching six square pyramids outwards, each of which apices are in the cube's center. That being said, such truncated tetrahedron is constructed by attaching four triangular cupolas rectangle-by-rectangle; those cupolas in which the alternating sides of both right isosceles triangle and rectangle have the edges in terms of ratio