Polytope info card of the Truncated Cuboctahedron
Today I finished this friend-shaped archimedian solid.
I drew the tiny drawing in the down right corner of the card and resized it with my printer.
The drawing:
I drew this Truncated cuboctahedron in an isometric projection and used my beloved isometric dot paper.
To start with the truncated cuboctahedron I started to draw a cube (with pencil).
Then I altered the cube by drawing a cuboctahedron in it (with pencil as well). I truncated th vertices of the cube like in the depiction below:
Then I altered the cuboctahedron drawing with another truncation - resulting in the truncated cuboctahedron shape.
[For clarification: I later erased the pencil lines of the cube and cuboctahedron, because it became messy and these lines were just there to help in the drawing process.
For the photo I laid pictures of a cube and cuboctahedron besides the truncated cuboctahedron drawing to show the similarity between these shapes - and present the principle of truncation visually.)
