Octagonal bipyramid

Octagonal bipyramid
Typebipyramid
Schläfli symbol{ } + {8}
Coxeter diagram
Faces16 triangles
Edges24
Vertices10
Face configurationV4.4.8
Symmetry groupD8h, [8,2], (*228), order 32
Rotation groupD8, [8,2]+, (228), order 16
Dualoctagonal prism
Propertiesconvex, face-transitive

The octagonal bipyramid is one of the infinite set of bipyramids, dual to the infinite prisms. If an octagonal bipyramid is to be face-transitive, all faces must be isosceles triangles.

Images

It can be drawn as a tiling on a sphere which also represents the fundamental domains of [4,2], *422 symmetry:

Related polyhedra

Family of bipyramids
Polyhedron
Coxeter
Tiling
Config. V2.4.4 V3.4.4 V4.4.4 V5.4.4 V6.4.4 V7.4.4 V8.4.4 V9.4.4 V10.4.4

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